The Prime minister, who used to work with BBC chairman Richard Sharp at Goldman Sachs, said the row over Gary Lineker's Twitter outburst 'lacked perspective'.
Travelling to San Diego, Mr Sunak declined to respond to questions about their relationship or his integrity, and instead told reporters:"Richard Sharp went through an independent appointments process at the time that I had nothing to do with - he was appointed before I was prime minister, but also the Chair of Publics appointments has asked, a leading KC, has asked to review - to re-review - that appointments process so there is not much I can say more that's ongoing, but it's...
Mr Sunak suggested that the row over Linker was missing"perspective" and should be resolved between the BBC and its presenter quickly. "I hope they can resolve it in a timely fashion. I think Gary Lineker was a great footballer and is a very talented presenter but this is an issue they need to resolve themselves."It is important we have perspective, there is a very real issue with tens of thousands of people coming to our country illegally and I believe we need to have a compassionate and an effective response to that and I believe the proposals the government have put forward are exactly that.
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