Will the BBC now apologise to Nigel Farage?

Oh dear. It seems that Auntie has done it again. This time it’s the row over Nigel Farage’s bank account, with the Brexiteer revealing at the end of last month that his Coutts account had been closed with ‘no explanation.’ Farage suggested that this was for political reasons but a week later, the BBC offered up a different explanation. Business Editor Simon Jack fired off an eight-tweet thread on 4 July, citing anonymous sources who suggested that Farage had merely fallen ‘below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts.’

Jack grandly claimed that ‘people familiar with the matter’ had rejected the notion that the decision to close his Coutts account was in any way political. He cited one unnamed source as claiming ‘it was for commercial reasons – the criteria for holding a Coutts account are clear from the bank’s website.’ No mention at all that political considerations had played a role in the decision to close Farage’s account.