Labour urges inquiry into claim BBC chairman ‘helped Boris Johnson secure loan guarantee’

Reports Richard Sharp helped ex-PM arrange guarantee on 800,000 loan before he was recommended for job

Labour is calling for an investigation after claims that the BBC chair 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 the 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.