It comes after an independent review was conducted by former ITN boss John Hardie.
THE BBC HAS set out new rules for flagship presenters after a tweet by Gary Lineker prompted an impartiality row.
The BBC named Dragons’ Den’s Evan Davis, The One Show’s Alex Jones, MasterChef hosts John Torode and Gregg Wallace, and Match Of The Day’s Mark Chapman and Lineker among those who fall under the rules. The new guidance comes after an independent review was conducted by former ITN boss John Hardie, following Lineker’s brief BBC suspension after he compared the language used to launch a new UK government asylum seeker policy with that of 1930s Germany on Twitter.
“The BBC also has important commitments to both freedom of expression and impartiality – and this rightly extends to social media.
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