BBC Chair Made ‘Errors’ in Boris Johnson Loan Matter, Inquiry Finds

BBC chair Richard Sharp made “significant errors of judgement” when he did not declare his role in the facilitation of a loan in 2020 to the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a U.K. parliamentary inquiry has found. Sharp, a banker and former chair of the Royal Academy of Arts, was appointed in January 2021 on the recommendation of Oliver Dowden, then Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) secretary, and Boris Johnson, who was still Prime Minister at the time. A report in U.K.’s The Sunday Times in January alleged that Johnson put forward the recommendation just weeks after… Read Full Article