Lisa Nandy thanked Tim Davie overnight for “his service to public broadcasting".

BBC chair Samir Shah has apologised for an “error of judgment” over the editing of a Donald Trump speech by Panorama, after the Corporation’s director general and chief executive of news quit amid allegations of bias.

In a letter to the culture select committee, he emphasised the “sacred role” of the BBC to “retain the trust and confidence of the public”.

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned after The Telegraph published a leaked BBC memo which revealed that its Panorama programme had spliced together two parts of a Donald Trump speech which appeared to show the US President inciting the 2021 Capitol Hill riots.

The BBC chairman has said that he has had contact from Trump’s team, and he is weighing

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