Pressure Mounts on BBC Chair After Report on Johnson Loan
- Richard Sharp risked public trust in BBC, MP committee says
- Labour MP calls Sharp’s position ‘increasingly more untenable’
Richard Sharp appeared before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee on Feb. 7, 2023.
Source: House of Commons
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BBC Chairman Richard Sharp made “significant errors of judgment” in failing to disclose his role in a loan to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, risking public trust in the British news organization, a Parliament committee said. He now faces pressure to resign.
Sharp, a former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was questioned by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee this month over his involvement in helping arrange an £800,000 ($964,960) loan for Johnson, who was prime minister at the time Sharp was applying for his position to lead the national broadcaster.