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Johnson, Sharp and Blyth also had a private dinner at Chequers, the prime ministerial grace-and-favour home in Buckinghamshire, accourding to the Sunday Times. Johnson and Sharp have both denied any conflict of interest, while the Cabinet Office said "all the correct recruitment processes were followed". "Richard Sharp was appointed as chairman of the BBC following a rigorous appointments process including assessment by a panel of experts, constituted according to the public appointments code,” a Cabinet Office spokesperson said. “There was additional pre-appointment scrutiny by a House of Commons Select Committee which confirmed Mr Sharp's appointment." However, Knight also said in the same announcement: “We have previously expressed concerns about the way the appointments process was conducted, particularly in the briefing of preferred names at an early stage.
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