Dogs bark, cows moo and the BBC makes a hash of it. After holding out for a week, the Corporation has today thrown in the towel and issued a belated and grovelling apology to Nigel Farage for misreporting the reason his bank account at Coutts was closed. The Beeb’s original report by its Business Editor Simon Jack claimed that the reason for the closure was that Farage’s account had fallen beneath the bank’s wealth limit.
But following last week’s revelation that Farage’s account was shut because he was not ‘compatible with Coutts… as an inclusive organisation’, the BBC has been left with a substantial amount of egg on its face once again.
On their Corrections and Clarifications website, the Beeb now says that ‘we acknowledge that the information we reported … turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.’ Jack has also tweeted that:
The information on which we based our reporting on Nigel Farage and his bank accounts came from a trusted and senior source.
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