The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Farage

IT IS hard to think how Coutts’s “reputational risk” committee could have inflicted more damage on the bank’s reputation than by recommending that Nigel Farage’s account be closed. When Farage first raised the charge that his account had been closed on political grounds, the bank let it be known that…

Farage’s fracas with Coutts has kicked off a wider discussion over powers retail banks have to cancel customers’ accounts.

Nigel Farage has described the bank Coutts as “the metripolitan elite” over a document that he claims shows the exclusive bank closed his account because it did not agree with his political views.

Everyone has a right to a basic account but banks can deny customers additional services

Bank for wealthy says it wants clients who are ‘disrupters and challengers’, but seems to find some less tolerable without the cash

FCA chief says banks cannot ‘discriminate’ against political views, but chair argues it’s up to Coutts ‘who they do business with’

SARs from employees have become standard in work disputes and are increasingly used by public figures

The former Ukip leader said after his account was closed there is a danger of the UK moving towards a ‘Chinese-style social credit system’

When the bank’s bosses said ‘Your money is no good here,’ they meant it. He’s raging at them, but what does it say about him, asks Guardian executive Opinion editor Hugh Muir