BBC boss Tim Davie must make a “groveling” apology to Donald Trump for a misleading Panorama report or risk the broadcasters White House access, insiders said.

Pressure continued to mount on the Director-General ahead of a letter to MPs from BBC Chairman Samir Shah, which is expected to concede that viewers were “unintentionally” misled by the editing of a Panorama film.

The programme, shown a week before the 2024 Presidential election, spliced together two parts of a speech Trump gave on January 6, 2021 , before the storming of the Capitol by his supporters, giving the impression that his words incited the attack.

The incident was included in a leaked dossier, compiled by Michael Prescott, a former adviser to the BBC on editorial issues, which also cited evidence of anti-Israel b

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