Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told football pundit Gary Neville to stick to football after the former Manchester United defender spoke of solidarity with striking nurses, drawing parallels between treatment of migrant workers in Qatar and UK workers
Neville made the remarks during ITV’s coverage of the World Cup final but Sunak was not impressed, telling the Daily Mail that
“I think when most people are tuning in to watch Gary Neville, they want to hear about the football and watch the football. They don’t want to discuss politics,” adding that , as chancellor and Prime Minister, he had a track record of prioritising the NHS.
ITV also released a statement saying that “Gary Neville was expressing his own personal views in the context of a discussion about treatment of workers in Qatar within a live broadcast. His views are his own and were not endorsed by ITV.”
Neville has been mostly quiet on social media but did retweet a Daily Mirror headline Cold Hearted Tories putting lives at risk and respnding to criticism from Tory MP by saying “You voted to stop children eating school meals in a pandemic! That ends any debate you will ever enter with anyone”
