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Just to remind people again that GL is not a BBC employee. Seems to have been forgotten by some. He can't be disciplined like an employee. The BBC may, depending on its reasons, terminate the contract with his company.

As it stands, that is unlikely because not only is it open to very wide interpretation as to whether his tweets broke the most recent guidelines but more importantly the BBC is not interested in losing him.

The guidelines are by the way exactly that - guidelines for freelance presenters. They're not enforceable, they're not binding and it would only be a court which can decide as to whether a "breach" of the guidelines by a freelancer was sufficient reason to terminate a contract before the agreed termination date. If the "breach" was not found to be sufficient, then the BBC would be liable for full payment up to and including the termination date set out in the contract.

FYI: The guidelines allow for a freelance presenter to say and do as they wish on their personal social media outside of a period of 2 weeks prior and two weeks post their appearance on the BBC and during election periods. That is as far as it will go as any further restrictions would push freelancers into IR-35 which is neither in the interest of the BBC nor the freelancers.