BBC chairman resigns amid corruption scandal

BC chairman Richard Sharp has resigned over a report into whether he failed to properly disclose his involvement in the facilitation of a loan to Boris Johnson.

The report found he breached the governance code for public appointments by not disclosing his involvement.

Mr Sharp said the breach was "inadvertent and not material".

The report, by barrister Adam Heppinstall, was published on Friday morning.

The former banker had been under pressure to resign after it was reported he acted as a middleman when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was looking to secure a financial loan, weeks before Johnson appointed Sharp to his post in 2021. Sharp told lawmakers in February he "didn’t arrange the loan," suggesting he acted as a “sort of introduction agency.”