The BBC’s chairman acknowledged on Monday that it was too slow in responding over a misleading edit of a speech by US President Donald Trump but rejected claims that the broadcaster’s impartiality was being undermined from within its own board.

Chairman Samir Shah said the broadcaster should not have waited days before responding to allegations of biased reporting over a documentary on Trump it broadcast days before the 2024 US presidential election.

“I think there’s an issue about how quickly we respond. … We should have pursued it to the end and got to the bottom of it, and not wait as we did till it became public discourse,” he told lawmakers on Monday.