Rome, 9 November (LaPresse) – BBC management is treating allegations of ‘systemic bias’ with ‘the seriousness it requires’. This was stated by Culture Minister Lisa Nandy on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, following reports that a Panorama documentary had misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. The Telegraph published details of an internal BBC memo suggesting that the programme had edited two parts of Trump's speech to make it appear as if he was explicitly encouraging the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. BBC chairman Samir Shah will respond to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee tomorrow. The BBC is expected to apologise for the way the speech was edited. Nandy said the matter was ‘very serious’, that ‘very serious allegations’ had been made against the broadcaster, ‘the most serious of which is that there is systemic bias in the way the BBC reports on difficult subjects’, but added that she had ‘full confidence’ that Shah and BBC Director-General Tim Davie were taking the allegations seriously.