BBC Chair Richard Sharp has asked the BBC Board to review conflicts of interest regarding his appointment in the wake of the Boris Johnson loan scandal that broke over the weekend.
Sharp has been under pressure since a bombshell Sunday Times report that said he had helped organize the PM’s meeting with a guarantor for an £800,000 ($990,000) loan in 2020, before being appointed Chair by the government several weeks later.
The report has led to widespread accusations of a conflict of interest regarding Sharp’s appointment and the opposition Labour Party has called for an inquiry.
Former Goldman Sachs banker Sharp is a former adviser to now Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and has in the past donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party.
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