Who is under-fire BBC chairman Richard Sharp?
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy BBC chairman Richard Sharp is a former banker with connections at the heart of the political establishment. He also said former BBC presenter Emily Maitlis was “completely wrong” to suggest that “due process wasn’t followed” after she criticised the way the corporation handled her Newsnight speech about Dominic Cummings. In an apparent reference to former prime minister Theresa May’s former communications director Sir Robbie Gibb, Maitlis said there was an “active agent of the Conservative Party” on the BBC board and that the corporation “sought to pacify” Number 10 after her monologue about the then-chief adviser’s trip to Durham during lockdown. Mr Sharp told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that Ms Maitlis’s apparent description of Sir Robbie was “completely wrong” and he was “disappointed” she had made that point.
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