BBC chairman Samir Shah has apologised for a Panorama documentary which edited a speech by US President Donald Trump, calling it an “error of judgement”.

“We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action,” Shah said in a written statement to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

Both the BBC’s director general and head of news resigned on Sunday following criticism that the programme gave the impression Trump explicitly encouraged the Capital Hill riot in January 2021 by placing two different parts of the speech together.

The edit was raised in a leaked internal BBC memo published by the Telegraph newspaper last Monday.