“I have never given Boris Johnson financial advice and know nothing about his affairs,” BBC Chair Richard Sharp declared this morning repeatedly of his relationship with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Sharp also revealed he was working in Johnson’s Downing Street Home in the months leading up to applying for the BBC Chair role.
Sharp was pushed repeatedly by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMSC) on the way in which he is reported to have helped facilitate a circa-£800,000 ($960,000) loan for Johnson via their mutual associate Sam Blyth, who is Johnson’s distant cousin and an old friend of Sharp’s.
Reports emerged late last month that Sharp helped facilitate the loan just prior to his appointment as BBC Chair. Blyth is acting as guarantor of the loan.
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