PM Rishi Sunak declines to say if he backs under-fire BBC chairman
Rishi Sunak has declined to say whether he has confidence in the BBC chairman, saying he cannot speculate while an inquiry is held into his appointment.
Asked whether Mr Sharp had undermined the impartiality of the BBC, Mr Sunak said the controversy over his appointment related "to a process that happened before I was prime minister". "This was a two-stage process, including assessment by an advisory assessment panel, constituted according to the public appointments code.The spokesperson twice repeated No 10 was "confident" in the process but refused to expand further, citing the ongoing investigation.
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