Sun 30 July 2023:
Nigel Farage vowed to help thousands of individuals storm big banks with demands for facts about why they were denied an account, The Guardian reported.
It comes as former prime minister Liz Truss said she was “appalled” at the treatment of the former Ukip leader, whose bank account closure by Coutts sparked a crisis at its parent company NatWest. Launching his campaign, Mr Farage said he wants to “fight back against the big banks that have let us down”.
I’m launching a new campaign to fight back against the big banks that have let us down.
We need to understand the scale of this national scandal. Together, we can form a powerful group to lobby government.
You can visit the campaign website here: https://t.co/zm0d8IZyyU pic.twitter.com/QQXWO9FNEW
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) July 29, 2023
The AccountClosed.org website currently asks visitors: “A major scandal is emerging – banks are unfairly closing accounts, do you think it is time to stop this?” In a six-minute video on Twitter, now known as X, Mr Farage said: “We will build together, I believe, if you engage, a very, very significant and powerful group of people.
As allies said, the former Ukip leader his treatment by Coutts and NatWest had turned him into Britain’s newest “consumer champion”.
Nigel Farage to spearhead a website assisting anyone who wants to find out why they have been denied a bank account. Farage used a subject access request to discover that, despite initial denials by Coutts, his political views had played a part in the closure of his account.
Farage is said to want to make the independent website a non-partisan tool designed to help those who believe they have been denied banking services because of their political views. It will provide them with a step-by-step guide to demanding the personal information a bank holds about them.
Farage and his followers think the new website will assist anyone intimidated by the procedure of questioning their bank, meanwhile NatWest, which owns Coutts, is said to have faced hundreds rather than thousands, of similar requests so far.
UK PROBES ALLEGATIONS OF BANKS BLACKLISTING CLIENTS BASED ON POLITICAL VIEWS
There has already been a huge fallout from Farage’s case. Dame Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest Group, eventually stood down in the wake of the row after she revealed she had been the source of a BBC story claiming Farage’s account had been closed for commercial reasons.
She was soon followed out of the door by Peter Flavel, chief executive of Coutts. Farage also wants NatWest Group’s chairman, Howard Davies, to stand aside.
The decision by Coutts to cancel Farage’s bank account earlier this month has proven enormously controversial, with the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader obtaining a dossier proving the NatWest-owned private bank took the decision because it had found his public statements did “not align” with its values.
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