careers overlapped. so this is someone who is well known to the tory party. i think that politically the report as interesting as well in the report as interesting as well in the sense that richard sharp s career may be ending in terms of the bbc, but one thing he has played quite a proactive role in, first reported by the sunday times, one person is simon case, the cabinet secretary, and in this report richard sharp is effectively saying, speaking in comments that he felt when he had spoken to simon case and he said he raised to the top civil servant the fact that this bbc appointment was going on around the time he arranged a meeting between simon case and the men who went on to guarantee the loan for boris johnson, and he says he thought that was enough, that it seems it wasn t, so he takes the blame and he should have done differently, but you read that and i think it will add to pressure about the fact that simon case, the civil servant, is repeatedly an aspect and lots
identical candidates. john | nicholson, thank you very identical candidates. john nicholson, thank you very much for joining us on bbc news. let s take a breather and work out how we got here. let s go over to david silitto. remind us how we got here. this is quite a big report, pages and pages of stuff about who said what to who during the appointment process of richard sharpe. actually, it is quite a simple issue at the basis of this. the job of the bbc chairman is appointed by the government. it is in the gift of the prime minister. the prime minister at the time was borisjohnson and richard sharpe was working in downing street at the time. he has a conversation with borisjohnson where he says i m going to apply for thejob of bbc where he says i m going to apply for the job of bbc chairman. then where he says i m going to apply for thejob of bbc chairman. then he tells him also that he is sort of involved in a process that might help boris johnson involved in a process that might he