The BBC does not believe the leaked Michael Prescott memo that brought down the Director General and news chief came from one of its staff.

BBC Chair Samir Shah revealed the news via an “update on our leak investigations” in a letter to Culture Committee Chair Caroline Dinenage today. “We have completed extensive electronic searches and analysis in relation to the Prescott memo ,” wrote Shah. “There is nothing to suggest from those searches that the leak to The Telegraph came from the BBC.”

Shah appeared to be choosing his language carefully and did not say that the leak unequivocally came from outside of the corporation.

The Prescott memo included selective examples of perceived BBC editorial failings including the now infamous Donald Trump Panorama splice, which was the ca

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