‘He doesn’t understand journalism’: ex-producer’s verdict on BBC director general Tim Davie

BBC director general Tim Davie: ‘a certain arrogance marks his approach’. Photograph: Hannah McKay/AP

The producer who was, until recently, at the heart of the BBC’s political coverage has criticised director general Tim Davie’s failure to “really understand journalism” and lamented fresh threats to the standard of the broadcaster’s current affairs analysis.

Rob Burley claims that an element of the BBC’s core purpose, the interrogation of politicians and scrutiny of policy, is now being “pretty much thrown away”.