BBC's chairman Richard Sharp rejected allegations by former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis who said the BBC's board had an 'active Tory agent'. Speaking at a digital, culture, media and sport committee Sharp told MPs that 'it was one of the errors that Emily Maitlis made [in her MacTaggart lecture] and I’m very disappointed that she made that particular point.'
Maitlis previously said that Sir Robbie Gibb, who has close links to the Tory party and founded rightwing news channel GB News, was an 'active agent of the Conservative party' working on the public broadcaster's board. 
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