Nigel Farage, one of the architects of Brexit, claimed his bank canceled his accounts last

month over his political views.

Farage is the latest in a long list of people, famous and not-so-famous, who've had their

accounts closed over what appears to be viewpoint discrimination.

In this episode, we talked to the director of research at a London-based think tank about

the growing, debanking trend and how it's already affecting both the UK and US.

I'm daily wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe at Saturday, August 26, and

this is an extra edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us to discuss the issue of debanking in the UK and how it affects the US as well

as Ratamere Taukot, director of research at the London-based legatum institute.

Ratamere thanks for joining us.

The debanking story has become very big in the UK.

First, could you recap for us what has happened with Farage and others?

Right, so last month, Nigel Farage, who was one of the leading figures in the campaign

to leave the European Union, claimed that Coots Bank had cancelled his accounts for political

reasons.

Now, despite Coots' claim that Farage simply had insufficient funds, and that is a claim

that BBC regurgitated without question, it turns out this was untrue.

He was effectively debanked for having views that Coots and its new woke directors didn't

like.

But there has been a flood of similar stories, actually, and one is Richard Fothergill,

a church of England vicar, who is debanked by the good old Yorkshire Building Society

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