Gary Lineker, the BBC and impartiality: what really happened?

Late on Friday, the Newsagents learnt that Gary Lineker could part ways with the BBC as soon as Monday. On today’s episode we piece together the conversations that explain the timing, and ask where it leaves both parties. More widely, do the BBC rules work when it comes to talent tweeting? And was this relationship already over? Later, the big EU - UK reset has provoked a lot of white flag rhetoric of surrender and defeat. But 8 years on from Brexit, might the problem really be that the government hasn’t been braver in terms of jump starting our economy?And we look at the rumours of a cover up as Joe Biden announces his cancer diagnosis.The News Agents is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/