In full: Tim Davie and Deborah Turness's resignation letters – and the BBC response

The BBC's director-general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, person resigned from their positions.

The bosses announced their departures connected Sunday evening and the notes they sent to unit astatine the corp person been published.

Read them some successful afloat below, on with the effect from the BBC's chair, Samir Shah.

Tim Davie's note:

"I wanted to fto you cognize that I person decided to permission the BBC aft 20 years. This is wholly my decision, and I stay precise thankful to the seat and committee for their unswerving and unanimous enactment passim my full tenure, including during caller days.

"I americium moving done nonstop timings with the committee to let for an orderly modulation to a successor implicit the coming months.

"I person been reflecting connected the precise aggravated idiosyncratic and nonrecreational demands of managing this relation implicit galore years successful these febrile times, combined with the information that I privation to springiness a successor clip to assistance signifier the charter plans they volition beryllium delivering.

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"In these progressively polarised times, the BBC is of unsocial worth and speaks to the precise champion of us. It helps marque the UK a peculiar place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious. Like each nationalist organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we indispensable ever beryllium open, transparent and accountable.

"While not being the lone reason, the existent statement astir BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision. Overall the BBC is delivering well, but determination person been immoderate mistakes made and arsenic Director-General I person to instrumentality eventual responsibility.

"Our organisation is simply a captious constituent of a steadfast society, arsenic good arsenic a thriving originative sector. We should champion it, not weaponise it.

"Despite a hugely competitory market, I americium arrogant that the BBC remains the astir trusted quality marque globally. We person continued to guarantee that it is utilized by astir everyone successful the UK arsenic good arsenic hundreds of millions of radical globally. Despite the inevitable issues and challenges, our journalism and prime contented continues to beryllium admired arsenic a golden standard.

"Our modulation to a integer organisation has been profoundly impressive, and our thriving commercialized businesses are admired globally. Also, our enactment unneurotic connected ensuring that we person the close civilization has been important and motivating. I could not beryllium much impressed by what you are achieving.

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"You volition inquire wherefore now, wherefore this moment?

"I americium BBC done and through, having spent the past 20 years of my beingness moving for this organisation arsenic manager of marketing, communications and audiences, manager of audio and music, acting director-general and main enforcement of BBC Studios.

"I attraction profoundly astir it and privation it to succeed. That is wherefore I privation to make the champion conditions and abstraction for a caller DG to travel successful and positively signifier the adjacent royal charter. I anticipation that arsenic we determination forward, a sensible, calm and rational nationalist speech tin instrumentality spot astir the adjacent section of the BBC.

"This timing allows a caller DG to assistance signifier the adjacent charter. I judge we are successful a beardown presumption to present growth.

"Thank you again, it has been a fantastic ride, which I person loved. I number myself precise fortunate to person served arsenic DG no.17. I volition person a due accidental to spot galore of you earlier I go, but I person been incredibly arrogant to pb the BBC arsenic DG for implicit 5 years.

"It is simply a precious UK instauration and you are a world-class team. Thank you each for the tireless enactment and friendship.

"I volition ever beryllium a passionate cheerleader for civilised society, a beardown BBC and a thriving UK.

"Best wishes, Tim."

Deborah Turness sent the pursuing to BBC staff:

"Dear all,

"I person ne'er been much arrogant of the enactment that you bash each day. You truly are the champion of the best.

"I person taken the hard determination that it volition nary longer beryllium my relation to pb you successful the corporate imaginativeness that we each have: to prosecute the information with nary agenda.

"The ongoing contention astir the Panorama connected President Trump has reached a signifier wherever it is causing harm to the BBC - an instauration that I love.

"As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the subordinate stops with maine - and I took the determination to connection my resignation to the director-general past night.

"In nationalist beingness leaders request to beryllium afloat accountable, and that is wherefore I americium stepping down. While mistakes person been made, I privation to beryllium perfectly wide caller allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.

"In a polarised world, BBC News journalism is much captious than ever, and I could not beryllium prouder of the enactment that you do. Together we person bucked the planetary trend, to turn spot successful BBC News, and I privation to convey you, wherever you are successful the world, for your courageous enactment to present that.

"My plea to you: delight support the courageousness to proceed our mission. I'm lone atrocious that I won't beryllium determination to pb and champion your superb journalism.

"It has been a large privilege to enactment with you all.

"I volition present enactment with Tim to program an orderly handover to guarantee that my determination to measurement distant causes the slightest disruption imaginable to the important enactment that you do.

"With precise champion wishes, Deborah."

BBC seat Samir Shah shared abstracted statements connected each exit.

Here's his enactment connected Mr Davie's resignation:

"This is simply a bittersweet time for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding director-general for the past 5 years. He has propelled the BBC guardant with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.

"He has had the afloat enactment of maine and the committee throughout. However, I recognize the continued unit connected him, personally and professionally, which has led him to instrumentality this determination today. The full Board respects the determination and the reasons for it.

"Tim has fixed 20 years of his beingness to the BBC. He is simply a devoted and inspirational person and an implicit believer successful the BBC and nationalist work broadcasting. He has achieved a large deal. Foremost, nether his tenure, the translation of the BBC to conscionable the challenges successful a satellite of unprecedented alteration and contention is good underway.

"Personally, I volition miss his stamina, bully humour and resilience and I volition miss moving with him. I privation him and his household the precise champion for the future.

"This is an important clip for the corp and the committee and I volition proceed to enactment with Tim successful the interim portion we behaviour the process to name his successor."

And his effect connected Ms Turness's exit:

"I privation to convey Deborah for her enactment of BBC News implicit the past 3 years. She has transformed the cognition of News with existent committedness and a wide imaginativeness of the future.

"She has acted with integrity successful challenging circumstances and leaves a beardown bequest from which to physique for the galore millions astir the satellite who trust connected and spot the dependable of BBC News each day."