lot of it will be referred back to in the session this afternoon. if you forgive me looking at my phone, there are a couple of things that caught my eye. one is this question is whether borisjohnson s aides were telling him that all the guidance and all the rules had been followed as he told mps. well, to be honest, there are some questions over that. the cabinet secretary, simon cates, top civil servant in the country, the man who helps manage what was all in government, he makes it clear in some of the evidence published that he did not tell boris johnson evidence published that he did not tell borisjohnson that evidence published that he did not tell boris johnson that the evidence published that he did not tell borisjohnson that the guidance and rules had been followed and that there were no parties. he has a very quick questionnaire from sue greg he just says no to all of the answers. then there is jack doyle, who was the prime minister s director of locations at the time, someone
itself or whether or not rules were broken. there have already been investigations by the metropolitan police, but also by the former top civil servant, sue gray, into these parties that took place in whitehall during covid restrictions. so they re not reopening that. it is still, though, a big issue, ithink, because this key question still remains of whether or not boris johnson misled fellow mps about this. the reason it s a really big deal for him is if he is found to have misled parliament, he could potentially face some kind of punishment that mps would then get to vote on. this could include, at its most extreme, a suspension from parliament. if that was ten days or more, then he could even face what s known as a recall petition, meaning he could face a by election in his seat. now, this is all hypothetical because we don t yet know what the result of that inquiry will be. but of course, that is a concern for him and his political career going forward, but also the conservative p
be trapped from his upper body. extraordinary celebrations, as he was moved out across here, his own father was hearing the crowd. how do you feel? that was tom bateman reporting on that story for us. lawmakers in the uk have accused the chairman of the bbc, richard sharp, of significant errors ofjudgement for not declaring his involvement in helping borisjohnson secure a financial loan when he was prime minister. at the time, mr sharp was in the process of applying tojoin the corporation, and maintains he s done nothing wrong. here s our political correspondent, david wallace lockhart. richard sharp was made bbc chairman, a government appointment, in 2021. while he was applying for the role, he introduced sam blyth, a businessman, to the uk s top civil servant, the cabinet secretary simon case.
up still the cracks to buildings up very dangerous and can cause a second disaster and that has to be very much cautious for the people who are working for the people who are working for the rescue, search and rescue right now. the rescue, search and rescue right ow- right now. professor takako izumi, right now. professor takako izumi. expert right now. professor takako izumi, expert in right now. professor takako izumi, expert in disaster - izumi, expert in disaster mitigation strategy at tohoku university s international research institute of disaster science, thank you so much for joining us on the programme. lawmakers in the uk have accused the chairman of the bbc, richard sharp, of significant errors ofjudgment, for not declaring his involvement in helping borisjohnson secure a financial loan, when he was prime minister. at the time, mr sharp was in the process of applying tojoin the corporation and maintains he s done nothing wrong. here s our political correspondent, dav
to mrjohnson s top civil servant, simon case, passed all the details onto him, told the top civil servant that he was applying for the bbcjob and decided at that point that he should step back for anything to do with this loan guarantee, which is what it was, a loan guarantee for £800,000. in the appointment process that then happened, mr sharp was selected by mrjohnson, but he did not in both the documentation that he had to provide or in the questioning by mps make any reference to his role in this loan arrangement. the loan arrangement that was happening. so this has caused some real upset when this came to light in the last few weeks. mps at the weekend, the same mps who quizzed him released a new report saying that there had been serious errors ofjudgment by richard sharp, that he had fallen below the standards expected of him and of the process. richard sharp s point is that he says he tried