The Guardian newspaper has issued an apology to the Jewish community and Richard Sharp, former BBC chair, over a cartoon that has been deemed "antisemitic".

The drawing, by Martin Rowson, was removed from The Guardian's website, after the review found that Sharp, a former Tory donor, had broken the rules by not disclosing that he played a role in securing an £800,000 loan guarantee for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The cartoon features Mr Sharp with a Goldman Sachs box containing a puppet of the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, an animal that looks like a squid, and a CV while a figure of Boris Johnson sits on money. The cartoonist also apologized, acknowledging that he offended the wrong people and rushed to create the cartoon without enough time for deeper consideration. The cartoon has been criticized for its use of antisemitic imagery and tropes. Photo by Bryantbob, Wikimedia commons.