What Tim Davie said to BBC staff on call - the key points

After days of headlines, and the looming menace of a $1bn ineligible enactment from the US president, outgoing director-general Tim Davie addressed BBC employees successful an all-staff call.

Mr Davie admitted the broadcaster had "made immoderate mistakes that person outgo us", but said helium was arrogant of the BBC and that the organisation needed to combat for its journalism.

He announced his resignation after a leaked memo revealed clips of a Donald Trump code from 6 January 2021, the time of the Capitol riots, had been spliced unneurotic successful the Panorama programme Trump: A Second Chance? The programme was broadcast by the BBC successful October 2024, the week earlier past year's US election.

Mr Davie volition enactment successful station until a successor is appointed, Sky News understands. Here are immoderate of the cardinal points from the call.

'A pugnacious fewer days... but BBC volition get through'

In understated fashion, the outgoing director-general admitted it had been "a pugnacious fewer days".

He told unit helium had lived done erstwhile BBC storms and seen the organisation "go done precise tumultuous times", and understood employees mightiness beryllium questioning the future.

"And possibly 1 of my biggest emotions astatine the infinitesimal is I attraction desperately astir the organisation, the thousands of radical who enactment for it," helium said. "And I deliberation we each request to beryllium looking aft each different and making definite we acceptable everything successful context…

"I deliberation what I would accidental is these times are hard for the BBC, but they get done them. We volition get done it… we volition thrive."

'This communicative volition not conscionable beryllium fixed by our enemies'

The downfall of the BBC's leaders has been greeted with undisguised glee by galore connected the close of British politics, says Sky News governmental analogous Amanda Akass.

In his call, Mr Davie appeared to code this, telling unit that "this communicative volition not conscionable beryllium fixed by our enemies".

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He continued: "It's our narrative. We ain things. Why bash we person traction and ownership successful that? Well, arsenic I said, I've been present before, and the cardinal happening is, the BBC is much than 1 person... it's astir thousands of people, 23,000 people, and much too making our programmes."

Mr Davie described the corp arsenic "unique and precious" and continued: "I spot the escaped property nether pressure, I spot the weaponisation. I deliberation we've got to combat for our journalism."

He said spot successful the organisation had "actually grown", and it was important for radical to cognize this.

The determination to resign

Mr Davie said determination were 3 reasons down his determination to measurement down.

"Firstly, for my ain life", helium said, describing the occupation arsenic "pretty relentless" and continuing: "I've dealt with a lot. I'm precise arrogant of the squad I've built up. And I thought astatine immoderate constituent I'm not going to beryllium astatine the BBC, and I request to bespeak connected that and the relentlessness of it and guarantee that that's done successful a mode that does enactment for the BBC."

He besides highlighted the broadcaster's upcoming once-in-a-decade charter renewal - the existent charter began connected 1 January 2017 and runs to 31 December 2027.

"I besides felt that evidently we've got this large moment, the charter, and giving idiosyncratic a runway into that charter does marque sense," helium said.

Finally, helium addressed the Panorama edit. "I deliberation we did marque a mistake, and determination was an editorial breach, and I deliberation immoderate work had to beryllium taken."

A coup oregon conspiracy theory?

Amid the controversy, determination has been speculation astir a coup and behind-the-scenes boardroom plotting.

Questioned astir this, BBC president Samir Shah, who sat adjacent to Mr Davie connected the call, said the occupation of the BBC Board was to correspond nationalist involvement - to steer a way betwixt enactment for the executives and holding them to account.

This "tension has go clear" successful the past week, helium said, and isn't casual to navigate.

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Mr Shah said mistakes had to beryllium acknowledged, but determination besides needs to beryllium a consciousness of proportionality and perspective.

"I don't judge successful conspiracy theories," helium said, adding that the BBC Board has questioned whether it has "done enough".

He said determination were "no casual answers... we're each quality and sometimes marque mistakes".