The BBC’s outgoing boss has said that the United Kingdom’s public broadcaster will not be defined by its “enemies” as it faces a public relations and leadership crisis and legal threats from US President Donald Trump.

In a call with staff on Tuesday, the BBC’s director-general, Tim Davie, said he was “fiercely proud” of the publicly-funded broadcaster, even as he acknowledged that it had made mistakes.

“We will thrive, and this narrative will not just be given by our enemies. It’s our narrative,” Davie said.

Davie said the BBC needed to defend its work in the face of mounting attacks on the media.

“I think we have to fight for our journalism,” Davie said.

“There are difficult times it goes through, but it just does good work,” he added.

“And that speaks – it speaks louder than any ne

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