Donald Trump’s lawyers used comments from former prime minister Liz Truss to strengthen the US president’s enormous legal case against the BBC over a Panorama edit.

Trump announced on Tuesday that he had officially filed a $10 billion (£7.4bn) defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster in Florida.

It comes after a 2024 Panorama episode spliced together two parts of Trump’s speech to his supporters ahead of the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021.

Critics accused the BBC of falsely making it look like Trump had incited the violence, which the US president denies.

The lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction of President Trump,” calling it a “brazen attempt to interfere in and influence” the 2024 US presidential election.

Truss, known for her historically short period in Downing Street, has

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