The outgoing chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, has stressed the corporation is “not institutionally biased” and the journalists are not “corrupt”.

Her comments, made as she arrived at Broadcasting House in central London, come after she resigned alongside BBC director-general Tim Davie at the weekend.

The pair’s resignations followed The Daily Telegraph reporting on Tuesday that a memo by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee, raised concerns in the summer. New Feature

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