UK Banks to Be Summoned to Treasury Meet After Farage Uproar
- Natwest, Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays among banks to be called in
- Brexit advocate says account closed over his personal views
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The UK’s Treasury will ask the leaders of 19 banks and fintechs, including NatWest Group Plc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc and Barclays, to explain how they’ll ensure that customers aren’t “de-banked” for exercising free speech following a dust-up with Nigel Farage.
Andrew Griffith, economic secretary to the Treasury, will write to the banks Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Farage, one of the most prominent politicians behind the UK’s 2016 decision to leave the European Union, said Coutts was planning to close his account over his personal views.