Why is Nigel Farage at war with his bank?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What is really up with Nigel Farage's bank account? We discuss, and hear from the man at the centre of what's quickly become a national banking storm.
And Defence Committee Chair and senior Tory MP Tobias Ellwood published a video earlier this week extolling the virtues of Afghanistan. Sort of forgetting that the country is led by the murderous Taliban regime. He now faces a no confidence vote. Why on earth did he do that?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Hello newsagents. It's Nigel Faradshire. |
| 0:16.3 | Bet you weren't expecting to hear him today on the news agents. |
| 0:19.8 | He has been in the news rather a lot over |
| 0:23.7 | his banking arrangements and the fact that Coots have blackballed him and said, we don't want |
| 0:28.7 | you to bank with us any longer. It initially seemed that it was just a matter of money. But there |
| 0:34.2 | does seem to have been a political element to it in that Coots Bank didn't |
| 0:39.3 | much like Nigel Farage's views and took decisions accordingly. So why does this matter beyond |
| 0:45.9 | a quite rich man, not any longer being able to bank with a very rich bank? It matters because, |
| 0:53.1 | as Nigel Farage, perhaps uniquely can, |
| 0:56.1 | he has managed to pull and catch virtually all of the right of centre political establishment |
| 1:03.2 | and bring them in as part of this story from the Prime Minister and Home Secretary down. |
| 1:09.9 | So on today's episode, what is Nigel Farage playing at? |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:18.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:21.3 | It's John. It's Lewis. And later on today's show, we're also going to be talking about another |
| 1:26.2 | conservative, this time a Conservative MP, who is finding himself in a little bit of trouble, Tobias Elwood, the chair of the Defence Select Committee, who has decided to go on a trip to Afghanistan and then post a video about how great Afghanistan now is. Yeah, how great it is. well, now it's being ruled by the Taliban. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, just not so great if you're a woman. |
| 1:46.6 | We'll be coming to that a little bit later on. |
| 1:49.1 | But we're going to start with Nigel Farage, who has always been a master of communication. |
| 1:55.9 | And the war he is engaged in with Coots seems to be going in one direction. |
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