![]() ![]() “If you are a public figure, you know your life is very public,” he said. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former business secretary, called on NatWest to hold an inquiry into the leak and sack the person responsible for it. The report did not reveal who the source was. The presenter said that information had been inaccurate. On Thursday’s BBC Six O’Clock News, viewers were told that the broadcaster had previously quoted a source who rejected the notion that the decision to close Mr Farage’s account was in any way political and claimed it was a commercial decision. Former customers are sharing templates and instructions on how to lodge subject access requests with the institution in a Facebook group of close to 10,000 people who claim to have had their NatWest accounts closed down. On Thursday, it emerged that NatWest faces a wave of demands from “de-banked” customers to discover why they lost their accounts. If this can happen to Nigel Farage, it can happen to anyone – especially people who don’t have a public platform, voice or ability to fight back.” “Citizens of the UK should be very fearful. A bank’s sole purpose is to safeguard and manage people’s money – not to infringe on their clients’ freedom of speech via threat of cancellation. ![]() Mr Trump’s son, Eric, told The Telegraph: “For a bank to cancel an individual because of their political party or individual beliefs is asinine and dangerous. The bank’s wealth reputational risk committee concluded that his views were not “compatible” with the bank’s “values or purpose”. In the dossier, he was also referred to as xenophobic and racist. ![]() He was able to obtain the dossier by making a subject access request, which gives people the right to ask companies for a copy of any personal data held on them under data protection laws. On Tuesday, The Telegraph revealed that Coutts had compiled a background dossier on Mr Farage, which drew attention to his views on Brexit, immigration and LGBT rights, and his friendships with Donald Trump and Novak Djokovic. He later added in a tweet that Dame Alison “needs to take responsibility as CEO, and is wrong to say the views of her own committee’s report don’t reflect the bank.” So in 30 days time, we’ll know the absolute truth.” “Well, I’m going to find out, because today I’ve put in another subject access request, this time to NatWest bank and in particular I’m looking for any personal correspondence, Dame Alison, that concerns me. “Can I ask you, Dame Alison, was it you? Was it you that breached my private client banking confidentiality? Was it you that told Simon Jack that? “Mr Jack, for some reason, seems to have gone to ground today and hasn’t backtracked from it. “ The BBC put that out, and many in the media accepted that version,” he added. “On July 3, you were having dinner sitting next to the BBC’s economics correspondent Simon Jack,” he said, pointing out that the journalist rang him the next morning and posted on Twitter that his account had been closed because there was not enough money in it. ![]() On his GB News show, he said he was “going to find out” if she leaked his banking information to the BBC. Mr Farage said he welcomed the apology, but believed Dame Alison had been forced into it by the Treasury. In a letter to Mr Farage, she said: “I am writing to apologise for the deeply inappropriate comments about yourself.” She added: “I would like to make it clear that they do not reflect the view of the bank.” She did not say whether the briefing would be investigated by the bank and did not invite Mr Farage to rejoin Coutts – telling him he could have another account at NatWest. However, Dame Alison failed to reveal who briefed Simon Jack, the BBC’s business editor, that Mr Farage had been de-banked for “commercial” reasons – a claim the broadcaster has since admitted was inaccurate. The chief executive of NatWest has finally apologised to Nigel Farage amid the row over the closure of his bank accounts, but failed to address many of the questions raised by the scandal.ĭame Alison Rose said comments made about the former UK Independence Party leader by staff at Coutts while justifying the closure of the accounts, including suggestions that he is a racist, were “deeply inappropriate” and “do not reflect the view of the bank”.Ĭoutts is a subsidiary of NatWest, which is 39 per cent owned by the taxpayer. ![]()
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