Alastair Campbell believes the BBC management is mishandling the Gary Lineker crisis and that key figures responsible, including Richard Sharp, Robbie Gibb, and Tim Davey, should leave.

“my point about crisis management once you've decided that and you decided you've got a base decisions on the principles and which arguments we won either I argue that what that means is that Richard Sharp the conservative donor friend of sunac loan arranger for Johnson he's gonna have to go”

Rory Stewart believes the BBC is struggling to maintain impartiality and relevance in an increasingly polarized social media landscape.

“but they are in a tough spot because the development of social media has got everybody accustomed to much more extreme exaggerated statements we've talked about this in the past that the algorithms of Twitter and Facebook feed the extremes”