The Labour Party has reported Boris Johnson to Parliament’s standard watchdog following allegations that BBC chairman Richard Sharp helped to secure an £800,000 loan guarantee for the former British prime minister.
Anneliese Dodds, chair of the main opposition party, wrote to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg after a Sunday Times report alleged that Sharp, a Tory donor and BBC chair candidate at the time, was involved in talks about financing Johnson when the prime minister found himself in financial difficulty in late 2020, shortly before Sharp was appointed chair of the public broadcaster.
