UK culture minister welcomes BBC apology to Trump
Britain's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy walks outside Number 10 Downing Street on the day of the first cabinet meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in London, Britain, July 6, 2024. REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) -British culture minister Lisa Nandy said on Friday it was right that the BBC had apologised to U.S. President Donald Trump over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory.
"They've rightly accepted that they didn't meet the highest standards," Nandy told Times Radio. "I think it's also right that they've apologised."
The documentary, which aired on the BBC's "Panorama" news programme just before the U.S. presidential election in 2024, spliced together three parts of Trump's speech on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol. The edit created the impression he had called for violence.
(Reporting by Sarah Young and Kate Holton, editing by Catarina Demony)
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