The head of the BBC has said a general election based around Brexit “will be as challenging as any the BBC has reported on in my lifetime”.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge yesterday, Lord Tony Hall said covering an election on the topic that has divided Britain will be “an immense task” and a “bumpy road”.

“It will not mean reporting both sides of the argument, it will mean reflecting all sides of the argument – right across the UK – so that our audiences fully understand what is at stake,” he said.