Morale at the BBC is low after the furore around their chairman Richard Sharp, The Londoner hears. One journalist tells us: “It feels like we’re being hollowed out from within”. Reporters are said to be finding it hard to speak to members of the public, who say they doubt their impartiality.
Sharp has been criticised for his role as a go-between over an £800,000 loan for then Prime Minister Boris Johnson around the time he was applying for the role as chairman. A piece in the New Statesman magazine agrees the mood at the BBC is “funereal”.
