SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the head of the NatWest group should resign if she’s the source of the BBC’s inaccurate story about Nigel Farage being un-banked by Coutts.
He was commenting after it emerged that the BBC has formally apologised to Mr Farage.
Sir Jacob told GB News: “Why is it that the BBC is always a few days late? The BBC really ought to have given this apology when it first emerged that they’d been sold a pup by a ‘source’ at NatWest, and they should have corrected it immediately.
“But this is characteristic of the torpor with which the BBC operates, that it does all by halves, it gets there in the end, but slowly and lumberingly because it’s a vast bureaucracy.”
Asked by Nana Akua if it was time for NatWest Group chief executive Dame Alison Rose to admit to being the source, he continued: “Dame Allison must answer that question, because this is really, really important.
“If you cannot trust your bank to keep your secrets, who can you trust?
“Even public figures should be able to rely on their doctor and their banker to keep confidential the exchanges they have.
“If Dame Alison has broken this, she must go and therefore she must answer the question: was she the source for the BBC?”
