The reputation of US president Donald Trump has “probably not” been tarnished by a Panorama edit that spliced together parts of one of his speeches, the author of a leaked memo raising concerns has said.

Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s editorial standards committee, faced questions from MPs on Monday after he raised concerns that Trump: A Second Chance? included selective editing of a speech made by Mr Trump before disorder at the US Capitol in 2021.

Mr Prescott told the Culture, Media and Sport Committee that there are “issues of denial” at the BBC and said “the management did not accept there was a problem” with the Panorama episode.

The memo highlighted concerns about the way clips of Mr Trump’s speech on January 6 2021 were spliced together so it appeared he

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