article_snippet: I don’t think that the performance you’ve shown here, and your record as a guardian of HSBC give me confidence that you should be the guardian of the licence fee.
article_snippet: I’m afraid you’ve lost the BBC Trust.
article_snippet: We relied on three layers of board oversight and multiple layers of executive oversight to raise issues of material importance to The Public Accounts Committee of MPs,Fairhead said.
article_snippet: We were reliant on [reports from] specialists
article_snippet: ’’’ MPs responded that the BBC Trust chief sounded too
article_snippet: ‘passive’, and accused the wider HSBC board of ‘extraordinary’ blindness.
article_snippet: It was time for oversight by a tough external regulator, Fairhead said.