Nigel Farage row: minister warns banks against closing accounts

Tom Tugendhat asks Treasury to review whether banks are blacklisting those with controversial views

It should be completely unacceptable" for banks to close accounts on political grounds", a Home Office minister has said, as Conservatives weighed in on a so-called freedom of speech row prompted by claims from Nigel Farage.

Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, was speaking in parliament after the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, urged regulators to take action against banks that shut off access to people with controversial views.