Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has defended the BBC as a crisis initiated by an edit of a Donald Trump speech engulfs the corporation.

The organisation apologised on Monday after two of its top figures, including director-general Tim Davie, resigned amid concerns about impartiality - notably the editing of a Panorama documentary from October 2024.

It aired the week before the US presidential election and showed an edited speech made by Mr Trump before the 2021 Capitol riot, in which he appeared to tell supporters he was going to walk there with them to "fight like hell".

Ms Nandy has defended the BBC, saying "some in the House" have suggested the BBC is institutionally biased, but that she disagrees as the BBC is a "light on the hill for people here and across the world".

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