Farage says Coutts is offering to keep his accounts open

Coutts has offered to reinstate Nigel Farage's idiosyncratic and concern slope accounts, the erstwhile Ukip person has claimed.

Mr Farage said the caller brag of Coutts had written to him to accidental helium could support the accounts.

Coutts and its genitor institution NatWest person been embroiled successful a enactment with Mr Farage, which past week led to resignations astatine the apical of some banks.

NatWest said it could not remark connected idiosyncratic customers.

Speaking connected his GB News programme, Mr Farage said the interim main enforcement of Coutts, Mohammad Kamal Syed, had made the connection to proceed banking with them.

"He has written to maine to accidental I tin support some my idiosyncratic and my concern accounts," Mr Farage said.

"And that's bully and I convey him for it."

Mr Farage did not accidental whether helium planned to judge the connection to enactment with Coutts, which offers services exclusively to affluent clients.

The erstwhile MEP is inactive connected the war-path against Coutts - which helium says decided to adjacent his accounts due to the fact that it did not similar his governmental views.

Mr Farage has shared documents which amusement his governmental views were discussed by the bank, on with his fiscal situation, earlier it decided to adjacent his accounts.

Mr Farage said helium had suffered "enormous harm" from the contention astir his banking arrangements.

"It has taken up a immense magnitude of my clip and it has outgo me, truthful far, rather a batch of wealth successful ineligible fees truthful I person contiguous sent a ineligible litigation missive to Coutts wherever I privation immoderate afloat apologies, I privation immoderate compensation for my costs, but - much important than each of that - I privation a face-to-face gathering with the bank's bosses.

He added helium wanted to find retired however galore different customers had had their accounts closed implicit their governmental opinions.

Mr Farage this week launched a website which helium said would assistance individuals and tiny businesses who had faced "unjust treatment" from banks, peculiarly if their accounts had been closed abruptly.

Dame Alison Rose, main enforcement of NatWest Group, discontinue past week, aft saying she had made a "serious mistake of judgment" successful speaking to a BBC writer astir Mr Farage's Coutts account.

Peter Flavel, the brag of the NatWest-owned backstage slope for the wealthy, Coutts, besides quit.