BBC Chair Richard Sharp made “significant errors of judgement” when failing to declare his role in the facilitation of a loan to the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a Parliamentary committee has said.
Sharp is under investigation over potential conflicts of interests after allegations emerged that he had helped secure an £800,000 ($987,000) loan guarantee for former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The former Goldman Sachs banker was named as the preferred candidate for the BBC job in January 2021 and the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee of the House of Commons backed his appointment.
But in a strongly-worded report published on Feb. 12, the committee said that Sharp did not declare to MPs his role in facilitating the loan when he was applying for the job of BBC chairman….