'We should have acted earlier', says BBC chair Samir Shah

The BBC's chair, Samir Shah, has said the corporation should have acted sooner on concerns about the way a Panorama documentary featuring Donald Trump was edited.

Shah's comments follow the resignation of the broadcaster's director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness.

The BBC has been under fire amid accusations that the documentary misled viewers, splicing sections from a Donald Trump speech on 6 January 2021 to make it appear he was explicitly urging people to attack the US Capitol.

The controversial edit was highlighted in a leaked BBC memo published by the Telegraph newspaper last week.