John Bryant, former editor-in-chief of Telegraph Media Group, has defended the company’s decisions to axe 54 jobs and move its newspapers to a state-of-the-art office in Victoria.

Bryant, 62, left the job two weeks ago after just over a year in the post. Telegraph Group has since revealed that the post has now been axed.

He stressed that the decision to leave was ‘mutual’between himself and TMG chief executive Murdoch MacLennan.