The football presenter believed he was allowed to tweet about refugee rights, his representative says
Gary Lineker thought he had a "special agreement" with the BBC's director general to tweet about refugees and immigration, his agent has said.He said he warned them that suspending Lineker could be damaging, hours before a staff walk-out began.On last week's row, Mr Holmes said: "Gary Lineker, with whom I've worked since 1980, had tweeted about the policy, reiterating his support for refugees.
He said social media guidelines for some BBC staff were "a bit vague", but said his client "assiduously avoids" appearing on political programmes. His suspension sparked a boycott by presenters which severely impacted football coverage for two days."We have never said that Gary should be an opinion-free zone, or that he can't have a view on issues that matter to him, but we have said that he should keep well away from taking sides on party political issues or political controversies," the statement read.A meeting with BBC executives last Friday "didn't achieve much", Mr Holmes wrote.
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