Monzo refused Jeremy Hunt a bank account and branded Conservatives ‘evil’

Last month Hunt revealed that his application for an account with the lender was rejected before he was appointed Chancellor.

The company is facing backlash over the “debanking scandal” after it emerged that anti-Brexit campaigner, Gina Miller was told her political party’s account would be closed down.

It follows the resignation of chief executive of Natwest, Dame Alison Rose after she admitted to leaking information about Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank account.

The former Ukip leader revealed that his account was closed because his views “do not align with our values” while other prominent figures have since claimed their accounts were closed over their political views.

A whistleblower has now revealed how staff at Monzo openly mocked those with views they disagreed with on workplace forums, according to The Telegraph.

In a message on a Slack forum in October last year, one staff member wrote: “Maybe JRM could do the human race a favour and stay out of politics forever. Doubt you could replace him with anyone who is more of an archetypal Tory”.

The same member described the Conservatives as “evil” and “ugly”.

Employees also celebrated the Tory local election losses in May with one replying: “What’s great about this gif is that the Tories have lost Maidenhead” while another added: “Tory losses in the local elections – we love to see ittttt”.

A third staff member, a financial crime investigator, said: “I’m just gutted that my own local council didn’t have an election”

In March, an engineer wrote that the Spring budget had distracted the public from “the general state of the country” and in January another said: “I hope I’m wrong though and we manage to topple the Tories for good. I’m not sure anyone can survive under the Tories for much longer”.

In April 2022, a senior manager also said that “the Tories are evidently swaying towards arguments put forward by Terfs”.

“Terf” stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist and is regarded as a slur by many gender-critical people who defend the reality of biological sex.

In August last year, another staff member wrote that “JK Rowling is a terf so grim” while in October 2021 another employee described her as “vile”.

A spokeswoman for Monzo said: “Our ambition is to make money work for everyone, which means that we’re politically neutral and personal views play no part in our policies or decision making, including eligibility for a Monzo account. Any suggestion otherwise is categorically untrue.

“These cherry-picked comments are personal views of a handful of employees in informal conversations and it is wrong to portray them as the views of Monzo or our thousands of other employees.”