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Richard Sharp quits as BBC chair but says breach of appointment rules ‘inadvertent’ – UK politics live

Sharp said he was quitting to ‘prioritise the interests’ of the broadcaster

Sharp, a former Conservative party donor, was appointed in 2021. It subsequently emerged he had failed to reveal while applying that he had helped an acquaintance seeking to offer a secret £800,000 personal loan guarantee for Johnson.

MPs had criticised Sharp for “significant errors of judgment” in failing to declare the potential conflict of interest, and the commissioner for public appointments launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding him getting the job.

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