{"id":36393,"date":"2023-04-28T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/04\/28\/bbc-chairman-im-resigning-this-is-still-a-distraction\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:16:19","slug":"bbc-chairman-im-resigning-this-is-still-a-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=36393","title":{"rendered":"BBC chairman: I&#8217;m resigning, this is still a distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s chairman has resigned on the day a report into his appointment has been published.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Richard Sharp said in a statement that while the report laid out he had breached the governance code for public appointment it supported his case that this was &#8220;inadvertent and not material&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Although, he said the matter was still a distraction for the corporation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The report was looking at whether Mr Sharp properly disclosed details of any involvement in the facilitation of a \u00a3800,000 loan guarantee to the then PM Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Sharp has denied any involvement in the arrangement of a loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-65323077\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC chairman resigns over report into appointment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-65421762?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The BBC&#8217;s chairman has resigned on the day a report into his appointment has been published. Richard Sharp said in a statement that while the report laid out he &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}