Ofcom has found that Naga Munchetty’s remarks on BBC Breakfast about a tweet by Donald Trump would not have breached its due impartiality rules had it fully investigated complaints made to it.

The BBC’s own executive complaints unit partially upheld a viewer complaint against Munchetty over the 17 July programme, prompting a backlash from prominent ethnic minority media figures.

The ruling, upheld last month, was later overturned by BBC director general Lord Tony Hall as it threatened to drag the corporation into a race row.