Gary Lineker has become a point of controversy for the BBC in recent years following continuous rows about the broadcaster’s impartiality “breaches.” While the football pundit, 63, has kept his important role in the corporation, former BBC chairwoman Dame Elan Closs Stephens has deemed him “provocative”. Closs Stephens held the role at the BBC between June 2023 and March of this year, a time period fraught with chaos surrounding Lineker over his political posts on social media. Just before this in March 2023, Lineker criticised the government’s immigration policy on social media platform X and…