{"id":45979,"date":"2023-07-20T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/20\/ros-atkins-examines-nigel-farage-and-coutts-bank-account-closure-dispute\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:32:28","slug":"ros-atkins-examines-nigel-farage-and-coutts-bank-account-closure-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=45979","title":{"rendered":"Ros Atkins examines Nigel Farage and Coutts bank account closure dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The boss of one of Britain&#8217;s biggest banks has apologised to the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after a row over the closure of his Coutts bank account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Alison Rose, chief executive of Natwest, which owns Coutts, said comments made about him were &#8220;deeply inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Farage said his account had been closed because his political views did not align with the bank&#8217;s values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The government has announced that banks will now face tougher rules over closing customer&#8217;s accounts in a move designed to protect freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the dispute in more detail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-66262494?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The boss of one of Britain&#8217;s biggest banks has apologised to the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after a row over the closure of his Coutts bank account. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}