'The mood is dark': Why BBC insiders say this is the beginning of the end

Anger and recrimination swept across the BBC newsroom as staff blamed an inside “hatchet job” for forcing out the Director-General and CEO of News.

The shock resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, following claims of “systemic bias” in its news coverage and culminating in a $1bn legal threat from President Trump, caused a rift at the top of the BBC.

Staffers loyal to the pair said the resignations, prompted by a leaked memo which criticised how a speech by President Trump had been edited, were the result of a “coup” engineered by right-leaning members of the BBC Board, who had clashed with executives over “institutional bias” inside the newsroom.

“The mood is dark. It could be the beginning of the end of the BBC,” said one executive as shellshocked staff came to terms with Davie