UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the prominent Brexiteer’s case raises free speech questions.
LONDON — He always said the U.K. establishment was out to get him. Now Nigel Farage has the receipts.
Britain’s most prominent Brexiteer has produced a 12,000-word document from the bank Coutts which, according to Farage, reveals the truth behind the forced closure of his account there.
The former Brexit Party leader has been embroiled in a row with the institution — so esteemed it has served successive generations of the royal family — after Coutts canceled his account earlier this month. Farage said at the time that no reason was given — but subsequent media reports, including on the BBC, cited a minimum wealth threshold Farage no longer met.
Now an internal document from Coutts, obtained by Farage through a subject access request he made to the bank and published in full by the Daily Mail newspaper, shows it wanted to drop him as a client long before — and used his controversial public profile as justification.
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Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/why-britains-most-prestigious-bank-cancelled-nigel-farage/
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