BBC apologises to Donald Trump over edit in 2024 Panorama broadcast but refuses to pay to settle claim

Nov. 17, 2025

In a row over alleged editorial bias, the BBC seeks the intervention of Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Labour Party-U.K.) to calm President Donald Trump (R-U.S.). The BBC has been "thrown into turmoil" since the revelation that a clip broadcast by the BBC in 2024 of Trump's address to participants of the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol was spliced from different parts of his speech. In the U.S., Trump has reportedly sought large money settlements from American media as a form of control.

Further Reading :

• Keir Starmer urged to intervene in Trump-BBC row [The Independent]
  Nov. 16, 2025 — Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to intervene in the row between Donald Trump and the BBC after the US president ramped up threats to sue the corporation.
• BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation [BBC]
  Nov. 14, 2025 — The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.
• BBC faces fresh claim of misleading Trump edit [BBC]
  Nov. 13, 2025 — The BBC was accused of a misleading edit of Donald Trump's 6 January 2021 speech two years before the Panorama sequence that led to the resignation of the director general.

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