BBC Chairman Richard Sharp Resigns Over Boris Johnson Loan Controversy
The chairman’s resignation comes a month after the former BBC director-general John Birt claimed that his appointment should not have stood because he as an “unsuitable candidate” in a “fatally flawed” process.
In a statement, Sharp said that barrister who led the inquiry into his appointment had found that “while I did breach the governance code for public appointments, he states that a breach does not necessarily invalidate an appointment,” adding that he had always maintained that “the breach was inadvertent and not material.”Sharp is set to remain as chairman until the end of June, when the process to appoint his success will begin.
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