Richard Sharp: BBC chair's position 'increasingly untenable' after helping Boris Johnson secure £800,000 loan, says Labour's Lisa Nandy

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Labour's Lisa Nandy told Sky's Sophy Ridge that 'it's difficult to see how Richard Sharp could possibly stay in the position'

secure an £800,000 loan, failed to declare his role as a go-between for the then-prime minister when applying for the chairman's job.

She continued:"But the committee today is saying that actually, had they known about , it would have been a very different situation.Speaking about the findings in the report, Ms Nandy said:"It is a really serious development and it makes Richard Sharp's position look increasingly untenable."

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