BBC News 28 April 2023
- BBC chairman Richard Sharp resigns after a report finds he breached the code on public appointments
- Sharp says the report has found he did not properly disclose his involvement in the facilitation of a £800,000 loan guarantee to then-PM Boris Johnson
- But he says the breach was “inadvertent and not material”, and he is resigning to “prioritise the interests of the BBC”
- The report has just been published and we are going through the details
- The government's choice for BBC chairman is ultimately decided by the prime minister - Sharp was appointed in February 2021
- A committee of MPs already said he'd made "significant errors of judgement" and had not given the "full facts" when applying for the job
- The inquiry by the Commissioner for Public Appointments has been led by a lawyer, Adam Heppinstall KC
