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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness was “a coup”, a former newspaper editor has said.

David Yelland, who edited The Sun from 1998 to 2003, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that their departure “was a coup, and worse than that, it was an inside job”.

There were people inside the BBC, very close to the board … who have systematically undermined Tim Davie and his senior team over a period and this has been going on for a long time. What happened yesterday didn’t just happen in isolation.”