Last night, the BBC was plunged into its highest-profile crisis yet when director-general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness resigned.
A Panorama documentary was found to have misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump – sparking fury from in Britain and the US.
Mr Davie oversaw a slew of controversies at the licence fee-funded broadcaster – including multiple in 2025 alone, where it broadcast “death to the IDF” chants at Glastonbury and shared a Gaza “documentary” starring the son of a senior Hamas official.
In his resignation letter, the disgraced director-general claimed the BBC “is of unique value and speaks to the very best of us”.
Though in Washington, Donald Trump and the White House appeared to disagree.
“Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these corrupt ‘journalists’,” he said. “These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential election.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt instead urged “everyone” to watch GB News.
Now, Britain’s News Channel is asking: Can the BBC ever be trusted again?
