July 25th 2023.
Nigel Farage has turned his attention to the banking group NatWest after receiving an apology from both the BBC and the banking group regarding the closure of his bank account.
The BBC had originally suggested that Farage lacked the funds to have a Coutts account, but he had acquired dossiers which indicated his account had been closed due to his public statements not aligning with Coutts.
Dame Alison Rose, CEO of NatWest Group, offered an apology to Farage, but he urged that the spotlight should now be turned on the banking group. His allies stood up for him and put pressure on the BBC and NatWest Group last week.
On Monday, Farage asked NatWest Group Chairman Sir Howard Davies whether an internal investigation had been initiated into the leaking of his banking status and current account balances.
BBC News CEO Deborah Turness also issued an apology to Farage, expressing her understanding as to why he felt the story had caused him to be put through a considerable and humiliating amount of publicity. With regards to the reporting process, she said the BBC had “went back to the source to check they were happy for us to publish the information. They said they were.”
BBC Business Editor Simon Jack also tweeted an apology, saying that the information on which the BBC had based their reporting “turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate.” The BBC corrected and clarified the story, and informed readers that the headline and article had been updated to reflect that the closure of Farage’s bank account had come from a source.
In response, Farage said that there was “no fault or blame” on the BBC, and that the spotlight should now be turned back to the NatWest banking group. He said that somebody in the group had decided it was appropriate, ethical, and legal to leak details of his personal financial situation, and that he felt this was wrong at every level.
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