Mishal Husain calls for end to ministers picking BBC board members amid ‘existential crisis’

‘What is at stake now is well beyond the BBC and speaks to the challenges of maintaining trust in our polarised age,’ says Mishal Husain. Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA

The former BBC journalist Mishal Husain has said the current crisis at the corporation feels “existential”, as executives prepare to be questioned about it in the House of Commons early next week.

The Bloomberg editor-at-large also told its Forecast newsletter the director general role was “too vast” for one person.