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Sir Keir Starmer is under mounting pressure to intervene over Donald Trump’s “outrageous” attempts to sue the BBC for $10bn in response to the editing of a speech he made before the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The BBC said documents filed at a court late on Monday in a federal court in Miami asked for $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages for defamation, as well as the same amount for a claim of violating trade practices.

President Trump's lawyers argue the depiction of him given in the edit, which aired in a Panorama documentary a week before the results of the 2024 US election, "was false and defamatory" and they also said "the BBC intentionally and

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