BBC promises major overhaul

'We must get a grip': BBC chairman Lord Patten steps into firing line as he promises 'radical' overhaul in wake of director general's resignation and Newsnight crisis

• Lord Patten tells Andrew Marr Show that George Entwistle 'left honourably'
• His decision comes just seven weeks after taking up £450,000-a-year job
• Home Secretary Theresa May: 'Entwistle took the right decision last night'
• Former Tory Minister: 'Winnie the Pooh would have been more effective'

Lord Patten today insisted the BBC would go through a 'radical overhaul' in the wake of George Entwistle's dramatic resignation last night as director-general after just seven weeks in the job.
The BBC Trust chairman said Mr Entwistle left the Corporation 'extremely honourably' and was taking responsibility for the 'awful journalism' that saw Newsnight wrongly label a Tory peer a paedophile.
He told The Andrew Marr Show: 'Throughout this in the way the BBC has covered ourselves, our credibility depends on telling the truth about ourselves and others, however horrible it might be.'

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