BBC director general Tim Davie has resigned after a Panorama documentary edited a speech by Donald Trump.
The CEO of News, Deborah Turness, has also resigned following the criticism.
This comes after The Telegraph reported on Tuesday (4 November) that a memo by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee, raised concerns in the summer.
They were regarding clips spliced together from sections of Trump’s speech on 6 January 2021 which are said to have made it appear as though he told supporters he would walk to the US Capitol with them to ‘fight like hell’. The documentary, Trump: A Second Chance?, was broadcast by the BBC the week last year’s election.
In a statement, Davie says ‘there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility’.
