Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 1:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A British politician and Brexit supporter has been debanked due to his political views, according to emails revealed through a Subject Access Request.
The Sun newspaper reports that Richard Tice applied for a business loan at financial giant Swiss Re in April 2022 and was rejected because he was seen as a “reputational risk.”
Tice was one of the leaders of the Brexit movement together with Nigel Farage, who has also been debanked, and now heads the Reform UK party, formerly known as the Brexit party.
Swiss Re was forced to reveal internal documents about Tice after he submitted a Subject Access Request (SAR). Under the U.K.’s General Data Protection Regulation, every citizen has the right to receive all personal information an organization has about them by submitting a SAR.
The Reform UK leader slammed Swiss Re for denying him service because of his political views, arguing that this trend severely hurts the British economy.
“This is one of the reasons we are struggling to grow as an economy – because people and businesses are being weighed down by all this bureaucracy, and it is all down
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