Mr Sharp has been going through calls to face down after it emerged that in late 2020 he had launched his pal Sam Blyth to the Cupboard Secretary Simon Case to debate whether or not he may act as a guarantor on a mortgage for Mr Johnson.

Mr Sharp, who was subsequently appointed to the function on the company in February 2021, denies being concerned in any mortgage.

Damian Inexperienced, the Tory chairman of the Committee, mentioned in a letter in the present day to Mr Sharp that he was being requested to look “following the latest media reviews relating to your appointment”.

Mr Inexperienced added: “The Committee intends to cowl the problems raised in your pre-appointment listening to and any developments since then.”

On Monday, public appointments commissioner William Shawcross introduced he’s to analyze Mr Sharp’s appointment to the highest job on the Beeb to make sure the method was performed “pretty, brazenly and on advantage”.

Mr Sharp in the present day insisted he is not going to stop over the furore and mentioned he believes he might be exonerated.

He advised BBC Information: “No, I am assured that he’ll decide that I used to be appointed on advantage. That is clearly for him to conduct that investigation and course of.”

He mentioned the appointment was a “extremely rigorous course of” with “very powerful interviews”.

Mr Sharp mentioned he was “snug” with the best way the method had been carried out.

He mentioned: “Having had a dialogue with the Cupboard Secretary about avoiding battle, and the notion of battle, I felt snug and I nonetheless really feel there was no battle as a result of at that stage what I used to be in search of to do was be sure that the method was adopted precisely by the e book, and that the method hadn’t began, of any type, by way of any help that Sam was going to offer to the prime minister.

“I had clarified and agreed with the Cupboard Secretary, each of us had the judgment that I would prevented a battle or a notion of battle.”

Mr Sharp mentioned that he dined with Mr Blyth and Mr Johnson on the then-prime minister’s nation retreat Chequers in Could 2021, after he had been confirmed because the Authorities’s selection for the BBC function.

Requested how that assembly took place, he mentioned: “Sam got here to me and mentioned, ‘Do you wish to come to Chequers? I am taking place to have dinner with Al’ (brief for Mr Johnson’s first title Alexander).

“I mentioned, ‘Yeah, nice’ – I would by no means been to Chequers and Sam drove me down and we had dinner and I took benefit of that chance to bat for the BBC.”

He mentioned the mortgage association didn’t come up in the course of the dinner on the then-premier’s grace-and-favour property.

The previous PM, who was accountable for Mr Sharp’s appointment, has dismissed the row as a “load of full nonsense”, saying he had no information of his private funds.

That time was echoed by the BBC chairman, who mentioned “I do not know something about Boris Johnson’s funds” as that was “between him and his household”.