Sky executive among Johnson's first appointments

TV boss who lent £9.5m townhouse to leadership campaign becomes chief business adviser. A Sky executive who lent a townhouse to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign and an academic who accused politicians of exaggerating racial prejudice were among Downing Street’s controversial first appointments on Tuesday. Andrew Griffith, the chief financial officer and chief operating officer at the pay-TV group, has been appointed as the chief business adviser to Number 10. He will work cl