The chairman of the BBC quit Friday after a report found he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years ago for Boris Johnson
The report found Sharp did not reveal his role in the loan guarantee to the BBC appointments panel before he was appointed chairman in early 2021.
“I feel that this matter may well be a distraction from the corporation’s good work were I to remain in post until the end of my term,” he said. While he was in office, Johnson’s financial arrangements sparked investigations into the funding of renovations to the prime minister’s official residence — known as the “cash for curtains” scandal — and into who paid for a vacation for Johnson on the Caribbean island of Mustique.Article content
Opposition politicians accused the Conservative government of undermining the BBC’s impartiality, and called for the government to be stripped of the power to appoint BBC chiefs.Article content The loan investigation is the latest uncomfortable episode for the 100-year-old BBC, which is funded by an annual 159 pound license fee paid by all households with a television and overseen by a board that includes both BBC nominees and government appointees,
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