Torin Douglas leaves the BBC after 24 years as media correspondent next month and he told Press Gazette that he leaves the corporation at a time when morale is low.

Douglas cited job cuts under the Delivering Quality First scheme and the Pollard Review, which “exposed real weaknesses”, as factors in making BBC staff “unhappy”.

“The fact is, morale within the BBC is not good – particularly with the strikes and everything,” said Douglas, who has taken voluntary redundancy under the DQF scheme.