'This may NOT be the end of the resignations!' Multiple heads tipped to roll at BBC after Tim Davie quits in disgrace

WATCH: 'This may NOT be the end of the resignations' - Multiple heads tipped to roll at BBC after Tim Davie quits in disgrace

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Susanna Siddell

By Susanna Siddell


Published: 10/11/2025

- 09:06

The corporation's Director General resigned after five years at the broadcasting giant

Multiple heads at the BBC have been tipped to roll after Director General Tim Davie and the chief of BBC News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday.

Speaking to Ben Leo on GB News' flagship US programme The Late Show Live, Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph Gordon Rayner told the presenter to brace for more to hang up their BBC hats in the coming days.


"I think that this may not be the end of the resignations because the people that made that Panorama programme behind this story," the journalist forecast.

The broadcaster is gearing up to grovel to MPs on Monday after mounting concerns over impartiality and possible bias burden the media giant.

It has come under particular scrutiny over the way staffers edited together footage from Donald Trump's speech on January 6 2021 to make it look as if he told supporters to "fight like hell" in a Panorama episode.

"We've heard nothing about what's happening to them."

Explicitly naming Jonathan Munro, who is Deputy Director of News of BBC News, Mr Rayner explained that he was accountable for the content aired on BBC Arabic.

He said: "He's the guy that in a meeting where the Panorama programme was discussed said there wasn't a problem, that the British people had not been misled, and it was just normal editing.

Ben Leo; Gordon Rayner

Gordon Rayner spoke to GB News star Ben Leo about the scandal engulfing the BBC

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"Well, if that's what he thinks, then I'm not sure he's in the right job," Mr Rayner aptly told Ben.

A memo sent to Tim Davie and other BBC chiefs about impartiality within its organisation revealed that BBC Arabic, which serves as a part of the World Service, allowed to support journalists who had made atrociously antisemitic comments.

One BBC guest, who declared that Jews must be burned "as Hitler did", appeared on the broadcaster 244 times within 18 months.

A second man said Israelis were "less than human" and Jews were "devils" appeared on BBC Arabic 522 times during the same period.

The report also found that BBC Arabic, which is part of the World Service, gave a platform to journalists who had made extreme anti-Semitic comments.

Penned by Michael Prescott, the 19-page-long document was handed to the BBC board, pointing towards the "shocking breaches".

Within the paper, BBC Arabic was ruled as failing in its duty to provide impartial news, with Mr Prescott declaring the content "considerably different" to BBC News content.

In the same document, the doctored Donald Trump speech was highlighted.

No10 confirmed that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy had been "assured" by the corporation that the matters outlined in the document were being investigated.

BBCThe BBC has been accused of ignoring a second memo concerning bias at the organisation | GETTY




Now, with the top chiefs having stepped down from the position after the fallout, plenty have looked towards who is set to pen their resignation letter next.

"It felt as though Tim Davie's position was pretty much untenable from the moment that we revealed that Panorama and documentary fakery, as Donald Trump refers to it," Mr Rayner told Ben.

Additionally, he blamed the BBC boss for overseeing the "culture to develop" where people who work there "think they can get away with this sort of thing".

"That's why they've got themselves into this awful position that they're in now," he added.

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