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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Bancroft and Sophie Wingate

Labour urges probe of claim BBC chair ‘helped secure £800,000 loan guarantee for Boris Johnson’

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Labour is calling for an investigation into claims that the BBC chair helped Boris Johnson arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 weeks before he was recommended for the job by the then-prime minister.

The party has written to Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, following a report in The Sunday Times that Tory donor Richard Sharp was involved in talks about helping Mr Johnson when he found himself in financial difficulty.

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