Gary Lineker row: No 10 refuses to say Sunak has confidence in Tim Davie as star ‘delighted’ to return to BBC – as it happened

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• BBC chair Richard Sharp under growing pressure to quit

The former journalist and Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell praised Lineker for his professionalism, accountability and integrity" and Tim Davie for admitting they got it wrong" after the BBC apology.

Before the BBC statement, the former BBC director of news James Harding told Radio 4's Today programme that the corporation had got itself into a bit of a muddle over impartiality.