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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Eva Barboni

London must stand firm against the US-led “war on ESG”

Nigel Farage has a new cause. In the wake of the scandal surrounding the closing of the former Brexit Party leader’s Coutts account, Farage announced he is focusing his energy on becoming “a champion and crusader for men and women who have been closed down by the banks.”

In a subsequent opinion piece, Farage set out the overarching problem — woke capitalism. NatWest, in his words, had “morphed into a woke warrior” under the now-former CEO and equality champion, Dame Alison Rose, and was now focusing more on promoting “diversity and inclusion” than “making money.”

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