Weak Rishi Sunak was accused of failing to face as much as “snowflake” Tories who flew right into a rage over a tweet by Gary Lineker – as he took extra flak over the BBC chairman.

The Prime Minister was requested why he did not object to Conservatives “attempting to cancel a soccer spotlight present”.

Labour chief Keir Starmer branded Mr Sunak “too weak” to sort out “cancel tradition addicts” inside his personal benches, saying: “The nation noticed how he stored quiet and hid behind the playground bullies why they tried to drive somebody out merely for arguing with them”.

And in one other dig within the ongoing row over BBC chairman Richard Sharp – who helped prepare an £800,000 mortgage for former PM Boris Johnson – Mr Starmer requested if Mr Sunak thought his “buddy’s” place is tenable.

The Labour chief instructed the Commons: “He is (Mr Sharp) been described as so near the Prime Minister he is been described as his mentor.

“He helped to rearrange an £800,000 credit score line for the previous prime minister (Boris Johnson), a minor element he forgot to inform the choose committee which scrutinised his appointment.”

“Does the Prime Minister assume that his buddy’s place continues to be tenable?”

The Prime Minister insisted the assessment course of was “unbiased”, including: “As an alternative of pre-judging, and pre-empting that assessment we must always let it conclude and anticipate the result.”

The BBC has been accused of caving in to the federal government after a string of Tory MPs demanded Mr Lineker was taken off air, whereas Jonathan Gullis branded the ex-England striker a “whining crybaby”.

Mr Starmer requested: “Final summer season the Prime Minister claimed he needed to guard free speech and put a cease to no platforming. So how involved was he by final week’s marketing campaign by Tory MPs to cancel a broadcaster?”

Rushi Sunak replied: “As I stated on the time, the problems between Gary Lineker and the BBC had been for them to resolve and I am very glad that they did and we will look ahead to watching Match Of The Day once more on our screens.”

The Labour chief requested: “Does he settle for the general public’s concern in regards to the BBC have been made worse as a result of the federal government

Earlier at present The Mirror reported that Mr Lineker had blasted a Tory MP for “outrageous and dangerously provocative” claims that he referred to as northern voters “racist bigots”.

The Match of the Day host rubbished feedback from right-wing Tory Jonathan Gullis, who made the accusations throughout a TV interview the place he boasted that he was not involved with upsetting members of the “Twitterati”.

Mr Gullis, a former minister, instructed Channel 4 that Rishi Sunak’s hardline unlawful immigration invoice was “definitely robust and upset all the appropriate individuals in the appropriate locations”.

“Let’s be clear, once I speak about upsetting individuals I am speaking in regards to the Twitterati, the Wokerati of North Islington, these champagne socialists who hold forth all day,” he ranted.

“These are the individuals I do not care upsetting, as a result of these are the individuals who wish to name individuals up right here racist bigots, Nazis, like Gary Lineker has finished.”

Responding to a clip of the trade, one other Twitter person wrote: “I do not assume Gary Lineker has really straight referred to as Pink Wall voters ‘Nazis’ Mr Gullis.”

Mr Lineker replied: “No he hasn’t and by no means would. That is outrageous and dangerously provocative.”

The MOTD presenter will likely be again on TV this weekend after an explosive impartiality row triggered by his criticism of the Authorities’s small boats crackdown.