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Boris Johnson - Is There Anything We Should Know About Your Application?
There's always a donor at the end of every financial mishap. And it seems that Mr Sharp was involved in connecting Boris Johnson with a Canadian... A Canadian cousin? A Canadian cousin, no, that's not that British establishment is ridiculous or anything. A Canadian cousin has a guarantor with an £800,000 credit facility. None of this was known at the time. Richard Sharp didn't put anything down and has insisted today that there was no conflict of interest. But he has referred this not to an independent body but to the BBC board on which he sits as the chair.
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