Tim Davie resigns as BBC’s director general

The CEO of BBC news has also stepped down

The news comes as the BBC is set to apologise on Monday for its editing of a Donald Trump speech featured in an episode of its Panorama documentary series about the 2021 US Capitol Hill riots.

This comes in the wake of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the BBC of being “purposefully dishonest” and used "selectively edited" footage in its film.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Leavitt described the BBC as "100% fake news".

She added that watching BBC bulletins on trips to the UK "ruins" her day and claimed taxpayers are being "forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine".

BBC chair Samir Shah is expected to apologise for the editing choice of the episode.

A BBC spokesperson said: “The BBC chairman will provide a full response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday.”

The Telegraph claim to have seen a leaked document that suggested an episode of BBC's Panorama programme "completely misled" viewers being splicing two parts of the speech together.

The leaked extract of the memo reads: “It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.”

Davie took the role in 2020, replacing Tony Hall.