John Nicholson MP: What is your relationship with Mr Shawcross? (who recused himself from investigating the appointment of Richard Sharp to the BBC, when, after a week, he remembered he knew him)
Richard Sharp, BBC Chairman-for-now: In the last 15 years, I have maybe met him two or three times. I think the last time I was at a dinner with him may be over a decade ago. I know of him and I know some of his relatives by marriage.
William Hartley Hume Shawcross CVO, 76 (Eton and University College, Oxford) married his third wife, Olga Polizzi in 1993. This makes Rocco Forte his brother-in-law. Rocco Forte was on the board of the Centre for Policy Studies from from 1998 to 2014. Richard Sharp was on the same board from 2002 to 2021.
His son-in-law is Lord Wolfson, 55 (Radley and Trinity College, Cambridge), CEO of Next. The clothing expert was a Cameron supporter, and a Tory donor from 2005. That brought him close to Sir Stuart Rose and Philip Green. In 2004, Philip Green tried to organise a takeover of M&S, with backing from Richard Sharp of Goldman Sachs. Lord Wolfson was a Minister from 2020 to 2022. He donated £130k to the Conservatives in 2019. He's married to Eleanor Shawcross, currently working for Rishi Sunak. Eleanor was on Chancellor George Osborne's Council of Economic Advisers when Richard Sharp was brought into the Treasury to advise on 'austerity'.
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