British Politician Warns That Corporate ESG Policies Are Being Used to Penalise Political Views

British Politician Warns That Corporate ESG Policies Are Being Used to Penalise Political Views
Richard Tice (R) listens as Nigel Farage speaks during the launch of the Brexit Party at BG Penny & Co, in Coventry, England, on April 12, 2019. Matthew Lewis/Getty Images
Owen Evans
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Insurgent parties are warning that banks’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies are being used to penalise certain views such as critiquing net zero policies.

The leader of the Reform Party Richard Tice told The Epoch Times that his commercial mortgage was refused last year because of his outspokenness on net zero policies, which went against the lender’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy.

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