An independent director on the BBC’s board, Shumeet Banerji, has resigned from his position amidst what the public broadcaster said was an incorrect edit of a speech by United States President Donald Trump.
The incorrect edit of Trump’s speech has also prompted the threat of a $5 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
Banerji, who also serves on the board of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, resigned on Friday, November 21, 2025, a few weeks before his four-year term was due to end.
The broadcaster’s news arm reported that Banerji, a former Chief Executive Officer of management consultancy Booz & Company, had said in a resignation letter that he was upset about governance issues at the top of the corporation.
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In the letter, Banerji said he had not been consulted about events leading up to the resignations of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness.
Davie and Turness quit on November 9 following accusations of bias at the broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by Trump that he delivered on January 6, 2021, before his supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington.
The BBC apologised on November 13 for how its “Panorama” news programme had edited the footage of Trump’s speech but said there was no legal basis for him to sue it for defamation.
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