Nigel Farage announces next move in Coutts debanking scandal as he vows to expose industry's secrets
Nigel Farage has announced that he is set to launch a website to support people who have been de-banked
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Nigel Farage has announced that he is set to launch a website to support people who have been de-banked after his Coutts account was closed because his views did not "align with its purpose and values".
It comes after NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose resigned after losing the confidence of Government ministers over the leaking of an inaccurate BBC story.
Farage says he will "help people to understand how to put in subject access requests" in a bid to "find out the truth".
Speaking on his GB News show, he said: "I will be, in the course of the next few days launching a website. It will be absolutely non-political, non-party political in any way at all.
"It will just be for everyone that has been de-banked to get together, I'll be asking you for your details, I'll be asking which bank got rid of you, I'll be asking you whether there is any reasons were given.
"I will help people to understand how to put in subject access requests which is how I found out the truth.
"And maybe, if we can form thousands of us, maybe it'll be tens of thousands of us, if we can form a powerful lobby, we can get ministers and parliament to look at laws that need changing.
"Banking needs a cultural change, banking needs legislative change, banking in Britain right now is absolutely rotten."
On Tuesday, Rose admitted to a “serious error of judgment” when she discussed Farage’s relationship with private bank Coutts, owned by NatWest Group, with a BBC journalist.
Initially the NatWest board had said it was standing by their beleaguered leader.
However, the situation quickly changed after it became clear that senior Government ministers no longer believed she should stay in her post.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and and No10 were said to have “serious concerns” over her conduct.
It comes after the BBC has issued an apologise to Farage for its "incomplete and inaccurate" report about the closure of his Coutts bank account.
The broadcaster was forced to amend a story suggesting Farage's accounts were closed due to his funds falling below the private bank's financial threshold.
A 40-page dossier revealed Coutts chiefs made a concerted effort to “exit” him as a customer as they didn’t believe the former Ukip leader aligned with their views.