The chairman of the BBC helped Boris Johnson arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000. Richard Sharp helped the then Prime Minister weeks before Mr Johnson recommended him for the BBC job.
Mr Sharp, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had submitted his application to become chairman of the BBC and was in the final stages of the job process when he helped Boris Johnson in November and December 2020, according to The Times. He is understood to have helped the Prime Minister organise a deal with Sam Blyth, while having dinner at Mr Blyth's home in west London.
Mr Blyth is a multimillionaire Canadian businessman and a distant cousin of Mr Johnson. He agreed to act as a guarantor on the Prime Minister's £800,000 loan.
