BBC board member 'liked anti-SNP tweet by accident', corporation head claims

SNP MP John Nicolson quizzed BBC chairman Richard Sharp over the board's impartiality

THE BBC board member who Emily Maitlis described as an “active agent of the Tory party" liked a tweet criticising the SNP by mistake, according to the chairman of the BBC.

Richard Sharp – a Tory donor installed at the head of the BBC by Boris Johnson – was being questioned by MPs at a meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee.