In a TV news interview, Conservative politician Jonathan Gullis made false claims about Gary Lineker days after an impartiality row at the BBC and following the government's recent legislation on small boats.
Gary Lineker has hit back at a Tory MP who made"dangerously provocative" claims that the BBC presenter had called northern voters"racist bigots".used Twitter to respond to the"outrageous" comments made by the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, Jonathan Gullis.
During a Channel 4 News interview on the government's recent legislation on small boats, the Conservative MP said there were people"I don't care upsetting". "Let's be clear, when I talk about upsetting people, I'm talking about the twitterati, the wokerati of north Islington; those champagne socialists who pontificate all day.
Responding to the clip, one Twitter user wrote:"I don't think Gary Lineker has actually directly called Red Wall voters 'Nazis' Mr Gullis."
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