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A committee of MPs has written to the BBC’s chairman demanding information about the way a speech by Donald Trump was edited in an episode of Panorama .

Dame Caroline Dinenage, chairwoman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said the corporation had “serious questions to answer” over a report which claims that viewers were misled in a clip on the documentary Trump: A Second Chance? which was broadcast by the BBC the week before last year’s US election.

The programme spliced clips together from sections of the US president’s speech on January 6 2021 to make it

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