‘We’ll intervene to restore trust in the BBC’ warn ministers

Next year's review of the corporation will be beefed up' as Dyson report into Diana interview sees ex-boss Lord Hall resign post

Ministers pledged on Saturday to intervene to restore trust in the BBC by conducting a wider-than-anticipated review of its operations next year, as recriminations grew over its controversial Panorama interview in 1995 with Diana, Princess of Wales.

The fallout from an independent report by Lord Justice Dyson into the programme 26 years ago prompted the dramatic resignation on Saturday of the corporation's former director-general, Lord Hall of Birkenhead, from his post as chair of the board of trustees of the National Gallery.