New Farage web site in ‘struggle again in opposition to large banks which have allow us to down’
Nigel Farage has launched a brand new web site to sort out de-banking as he continues to marketing campaign on behalf of individuals whose financial institution accounts have been closed.
It comes as former prime minister Liz Truss mentioned she was “appalled” on the therapy of the previous Ukip chief, whose checking account closure by Coutts sparked a disaster at its father or mother firm NatWest. Launching his marketing campaign, Mr Farage mentioned he desires to “fight back against the big banks that have let us down”.
The AccountClosed.org web site at the moment asks guests: “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 often called X, Mr Farage mentioned: “We will build together, I believe, if you engage, a very, very significant and powerful group of people.
“And Parliament will listen, ministers will listen, prime ministers and leaders of the opposition will listen.”
On X, he mentioned: “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.”
Mr Farage’s campaign in opposition to NatWest has led to the resignation of chief govt Dame Alison Rose and Coutts’s boss Peter Flavel, with the marketing campaign on account closures successful the backing of ministers and Tory MPs. Dame Alison give up after admitting being the supply of a BBC report suggesting Mr Farage fell beneath the monetary threshold to carry an account with high-net-worth financial institution Coutts, triggering issues she breached confidentiality guidelines.
NatWest’s chairman Sir Howard Davies, although, has resisted stress from Mr Farage and others to give up, insisting it will be important for the financial institution’s stability that he stays on the board. On Friday, City minister Andrew Griffith, who led the Government response to the difficulty, mentioned Sir Howard ought to stay in submit.
Ms Truss added her voice to defenders of Mr Farage, writing in The Sunday Telegraph that “heads have rightly rolled” within the wake of the row. She took intention at guidelines and danger assessments for politically uncovered individuals, which she mentioned have made “elected representatives automatically subject to added suspicion”.
“Not being able to get a mortgage or open a new bank account… is hardly going to draw many new aspiring candidates into the pool of potential future MPs,” she wrote.
She mentioned: “What has happened at NatWest is a microcosm of what has gone wrong both in the boardrooms and the treasuries across many Western economies. The saga shows how a powerful technocracy presides over an increasingly opaque system, while elected politicians – in particular those politicians whose views do not find favour at London dinner parties – are treated with suspicion.”
It comes as senior Tory MP David Davis, writing in The Sun, urged he’ll carry ahead a non-public member’s invoice within the Commons to “guarantee everyone has a right to a bank account”.