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Re: BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigns
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Two non-disclosure breaches by Sharp, report finds
We're looking at the Commissioner for Public Appointments' report in full now, which has found two non-disclosures by Richard Sharp during the application process for his BBC chairman role breached the governance code for public appointments.
Adam Heppinstall KC says Sharp failed to disclose two "potential perceived conflicts of interest" to the panel that interviewed him.
1) Sharp informed then Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he "wished to apply to be chair of the BBC board, before he made his application in November 2020".
2) Sharp told Johnson, before he was interviewed, that he was going to to make the introduction between Sam Blyth and the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, with Blyth having suggested he might be able to "assist the former prime minister with his personal finances".
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Speaking about his subsequent interview with the appointments panel ahead of his appointment as BBC chairman, Sharp says: “I wish, with the benefit of hindsight, this potential perceived conflict of interest was something I had considered to mention.
“I would like once again to apologise for that oversight – inadvertent though it was – and for the distraction these events have caused the BBC."
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Not sure there are enough caveats in that sentence…
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