What’s happened?
Richard Sharp, the outgoing BBC chairman and ex-banker who was once Rishi Sunak’s boss, and has donated some £400,000 to the Conservatives, broke the rules on public appointments by neglecting to disclose to the recruitment panel that he had helped arrange a £800,000 loan guarantee for former prime minister Boris Johnson. He also broke the rules by not telling them that he’d informed Johnson about his application. Sharp feels hard done by, says The Sunday Times, because he informed the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, of the loan plan. But he was “sunk by his