Labour urges inquiry of claim BBC chairman ‘helped Boris Johnson secure loan guarantee’
Reports Richard Sharp helped ex-PM arrange guarantee on £800k loan before he was recommended for jobLabour is calling for an investigation after claims that the BBC chairman helped Boris Johnson arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 weeks before he was recommended for the job by the then-prime minister.The party has written to parliamentary commissioner for standards, Daniel Greenberg, after a report in the Sunday Times that Tory donor Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnson when he found himself in financial difficulty in late 2020.
