Labour is calling for an investigation after claims that the BBC chairman 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
A long time ago, it was said that if a politician had been found to be unfaithful to his wife, he was unfit for high office. “If he can lie to his wife, he can lie to the country,” went the line. As the postwar years passed, a refinement of that rule became the norm.
Boris Johnson would be an even more tragic, hilarious figure if he tried to lecture anyone about morality, but mercifully he has enough self-knowledge – and familiarity with the writings of Dr Johnson – to spare us that. But he stands as a resounding, irresistible advertisement – probably the most compelling for 50 years – for the idea that politicians’ private lives should not be beyond public scrutiny.
The impropriety looks obvious. Where was the scrutiny, the oversight? When people say the BBC is in the Government’s pocket, or that theis gutless beyond words, who can blame them for pointing at Richard Sharp’s little arrangement with the man who put him there?
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