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FCA finds no evidence of customers being debanked over political views
Watchdog launched inquiry after row over Coutts’s handling of Nigel Farage’s account Business live – latest updates The UK’s financial regulator has found no evidence showing banks hav...
NatWest names ex-Centrica boss as chair after Farage saga
Rick Haythornthwaite, who leads boardrooms of Ocado and the AA, will succeed Howard Davies NatWest has announced that a former Centrica boss will be its next chair, as the lender continues to d...
Account owned by serial killer Rose West kept open by Co-op Bank
It is understood the bank thought closing the account would cause problems for West’s daughter An account ultimately owned by the serial killer Rose West was kept open by the Co-operative Ban...
NatWest chief ousted over Nigel Farage accounts row in line for £2.4m payout
Bank to pay salary, pension and shares to Alison Rose, who resigned at end of July, during 12-month notice period NatWest Group’s ousted chief executive Alison Rose is in line for a pay packa...
City watchdog to contact MPs and other PEPs to ask if they have been debanked
Inquiry aims to find out extent of denial of banking services to politically exposed persons such as politicians and army leaders The City watchdog is to write to politicians and civil servants...
Lee Anderson: a brutally honest politician – or just another nasty Tory?
The Conservative party deputy chairman has been making headlines again, but they don’t always go down well with his constituents Last week, the Conservative party deputy chairman and GB News...
Tory peer Zac Goldsmith could be ‘very tempted’ to back Labour over climate issues - as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here Nicola Sturgeon’s “deeply personal and revealing” memoir will be published in 2025 by Pan Macmillan, after nine publish...
UK banks to be given two weeks to explain closing of customer accounts
Regulator to write to more than 20 of largest lenders after Nigel Farage’s accounts were threatened with closure The City regulator will give the UK’s largest banks two weeks to explain why...
‘Up all night worrying’: 92-year-old debanked by NatWest after move to Jamaica
Last year’s decision left Philip Cato, who moved ‘home’ in 1990s after 30 years working in the UK, cut off from his state pension Until recently Philip Cato, a member of the Windrush gene...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/06/92-year-old-debanked-natwest-jamaica
Jeremy Hunt requests inquiry into ‘debanking’ of politicians
Chancellor wants Financial Conduct Authority to investigate whether practice is ‘widespread’ Jeremy Hunt has asked the financial regulator to urgently investigate whether banks are barring ...
This is the apology that Coutts should offer | Letter
In the wake of the Nigel Farage ‘debanking’ affair, MICHEL FABER suggests a way forward for the bank Coutts’ chief executive has been forced to resign and the hastily installed new boss h...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/this-is-the-apology-that-coutts-should-offer
Rishi Sunak should think about his RAF jet pilot’s pay | Brief letters
Public sector pay | Sloughvian demonyms | Fond memories of Sindy | Property inflation | Farage farrago As Rishi Sunak travels the UK in an RAF jet (Sunak’s private jet to Scotland may have br...
Nigel Farage says new Coutts boss has offered to keep his accounts open
Former Ukip leader is still taking legal action against bank demanding compensation and apology Nigel Farage has said that the newly installed boss of Coutts has offered to keep his accounts th...
Banking double standards exposed in Nigel Farage furore | Letters
NICK MOSS wonders when Tory ministers will get similarly worked up about former offenders like him having their banking facilities withdrawn with no explanation. Plus letters from ALISON CROWTHER...
UK banks are closing more than 1,000 accounts every day
Nigel Farage calls for royal commission as data shows big jump in customers being ‘debanked’ Banks are closing more than 1,000 accounts every working day, according to new data that has fue...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/uk-banks-closing-more-than-1000-accounts-every-day
Nigel Farage launching new website to help people denied accounts by banks
The ex-Ukip leader has been hailed as a consumer champion after vowing to create a guide on how to flood banks with data requests Nigel Farage has vowed to help thousands of people flood big ba...
From Brexit to Coutts – has Nigel Farage become Britain’s most influential politician? | Andrew Anthony
For all his beer and blazers, his unerring talent is for tapping into popular grievances Who is the most consequential British politician of the 21st century? Tony Blair? David Cameron? Liz Trus...
NatWest chair quitting over Coutts row would not be ‘helpful’, says City minister
Andrew Griffith backs Sir Howard Davies staying in post after resignations of chief executive and head of private banking arm The City minister has said it would not be “helpful” for the Na...
Yorkshires help the medicine go down | Brief letters
Yorkshire puddings | Nigel Farage | Starmer’s stance | Tactical voter | Grateful Tories In our household we regularly enjoyed yorkshire pudding with mother’s homemade blackberry vinegar aft...
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/28/yorkshires-help-the-medicine-go-down
Digested week: Forget the climate crisis – re-election is Sunak’s only burning issue | John Crace
Plus, my plan to live for ever by standing on one leg, and Nigel Farage lives his best life despite debanking ‘shame’ You would have thought the sight of wildfires in many parts of southern...