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Farage explores legal declare over NatWest debanking

By Editorial Board Published February 13, 2025 4 Min Read
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Farage explores legal declare over NatWest debanking

The Reform UK chief Nigel Farage is exploring launching personal legal proceedings towards NatWest Group over the debanking scandal which resulted within the lender’s former chief shedding her job.

The transfer seems to be intentionally timed to coincide with the publication of NatWest’s annual outcomes on Friday morning, which is able to come simply weeks earlier than the federal government is anticipated to promote its last-remaining shares within the firm, practically 17 years after its £45.5bn taxpayer bailout.

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Reform UK chief Nigel Farage on Wednesday. Pic: PA

Dan Morrison, a associate at Grosvenor Legislation, stated in a separate assertion: “Mr Farage is concerned about possible criminal issues arising out of the bank’s conduct.

“We don’t want to present additional particulars.

“We have therefore decided to instruct leading criminal counsel.”

The debanking furore which claimed the scalp of Dame Alison Rose, NatWest’s former chief govt, in the summertime of 2023 centred on whether or not the financial institution’s Coutts subsidiary determined to shut Mr Farage’s accounts for industrial or political causes.

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Dame Alison Rose. Pic: PA

NatWest initially claimed the motivation was industrial earlier than Mr Farage obtained inner proof from the financial institution suggesting that his politics had been a pivotal issue within the choice.

It sparked a firestorm below the then Conservative authorities, with Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the then prime minister and chancellor respectively, indicating to NatWest’s board that they’d misplaced religion in Dame Alison’s capability to guide the financial institution.

Since then, the Metropolis watchdog has instructed banks and different monetary corporations to do extra to make sure that parliamentarians, senior public servants and their households – generally known as politically uncovered individuals, or PEPs – should not handled unfairly.

Mr Farage’s choice to rent Mr Daw KC threatens a recent escalation towards certainly one of Britain’s largest banks at a time when some argue that he has change into the nation’s most influential politician.

He led Reform to a handful of seats eventually yr’s normal election, whereas his get together completed in second place in scores of different constituencies.

The Reform chief’s shut ties to Donald Trump, inaugurated final month for the second time as US President, have fuelled the sense that he might play an much more essential position in shaping the id of Britain’s subsequent authorities when the nation goes to the polls in 2029.

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Because the summer time of 2023, tentative discussions between Mr Farage’s authorized representatives and NatWest a few potential settlement have didn’t end in any monetary settlement.

Mr Farage was anticipated to hunt tens of millions of kilos from the corporate, alleging that the debanking row had broken his repute.

Regardless of the specter of a recent authorized barrage from Mr Farage, NatWest – now run by Paul Thwaite – is in its most sturdy monetary well being for many years.

The federal government’s stake within the financial institution is now beneath 8%, and a full exit is anticipated in the course of the spring.

A NatWest spokesperson stated it didn’t touch upon particular person clients.

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