Prime minister faces MPs on the liaison committee shortly
Nigel Farage has posted a video on Twitter responding to the BBC revealing that his Coutts account was closed because he did not have enough money in it. (See 12.43pm.) He says he was never told this himself. And he says he was only offered an alternative account, with NatWest (which owns Coutts), after he went public last week about being denied an account.
In the video Farage also repeats a claim he made yesterday about having been turned down by nine other banks for an account. He insists this is because he is a PEP (politically exposed person).
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