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1/ Sunday Times: SCOOP by Harry Yorke and Gabriel Pogrun
The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee
Bloody hell. So the BBC in the form of its chairman, Sharp, has been sitting on this story FOR YEARS @Ofcom
Impartiality⁉️ Not even lip service.
The BBC chairman - Sharp- , a Tory donor, helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role.
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Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnson’s Downing Street lifestyle in November and December 2020.
“Sharp, 66, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had already submitted his application to become chairman of the public service broadcaster & had reached the final stages of the recruitment process.”
“The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role”
FFS.
3/ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that a PM that needs a £800k credit line is a security risk
And an ethics risk.
Stunned to discover that the CABINET OFFICE and SIMON CAVE knew about this.
How the f*** did Sharp get appointed?
Have they all lost their minds?
I’m trying to get my head around this.
The BBC is PACKED with people who are supposed to be journalists.
She might not be a former banker but people consider Brexit and Tory propagandists like Laura Kuenssberg a "journalist".
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