NIGEL Farage has hit out at Coutts for failing to apologise for the unjustified closure of his bank accounts.

Asked if the bank had apologised, the GB News presenter said: “No. Goodness, no, nothing of the kind. Just briefings that they give out to the BBC or whoever it might be with absolutely no regard for client confidentiality or GDPR regulations. And now this has turned into a full on fight.

“They have been cancelling people’s bank accounts for some time…a series of European Union directives, over regulation in this country, crazy compliance departments, have made it just so easy for banks to say, ‘you know what, your little business, your little fish counter that takes only cash, we don’t want your business because you might be a front for a Colombian drug ring.”

In a discussion with Patrick Christys, he continued: “It’s happened to Politically Exposed People, we know that Nigel Lawson’s granddaughter was refused a bank account on the basis that she was a PEP.

“But in my case, this is very different. This is absolutely clear discrimination on the grounds of my views, and my views are perfectly lawful, legal.

“And so this has turned into a very big battle. But it’s not a battle just about me. It’s about the way the banks have been behaving.”

He added: “What next is what I’m going to keep fighting and pushing and trying to broaden this argument as much as I can…

“I’ll be saying if you’ve been cancelled by your bank, please let me know. I’ve got the resources here now at GB News to follow these cases up.

“And I’m going to encourage people who’ve been given a tough time by their banks to put in their own Subject Access Requests.”