
BBC boss quits over Boris Johnson loan
The BBC’s chairman on Friday announced his resignation after his involvement in a loan for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson raised questions about the broadcaster’s vaunted impartiality.
The BBC’s chairman on Friday announced his resignation after his involvement in a loan for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson raised questions about the broadcaster’s vaunted impartiality.
The returns show that the privately wealthy former investment banker paid a total of £1,053,060 ($1,288,787) in tax, including £432,493 last year.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday offered “heartfelt apologies” for attending a lockdown-breaching party held in his Downing Street garden, but deflected calls to resign as the opposition leader called him a “man without shame”.