Nigel Farage: Coutts document 'shows bank account shut over my views'

Nigel Farage says helium has grounds that Coutts slope decided to adjacent his relationship due to the fact that his views "do not align" with their values.

Writing successful the Telegraph, helium said helium had gained entree to a study by the bank's wealthiness reputational hazard committee via a taxable entree request.

Coutts said decisions to adjacent accounts included reputational considerations.

In the Telegraph article, erstwhile UKIP person Mr Farage says that the "36-page" papers shows that helium was targeted "on idiosyncratic and governmental grounds".

According to what the Telegraph says are minutes of a gathering of Coutts' wealthiness reputational hazard committee held connected November 17 2022, they read: "The committee did not deliberation continuing to slope NF [Nigel Farage] was compatible with Coutts fixed his publicly-stated views that were astatine likelihood with our presumption arsenic an inclusive organisation.

"This was not a governmental determination but 1 centred astir inclusivity and purpose."

He besides said determination was a cognition that helium was regarded arsenic "racist and xenophobic", which helium called an "appalling slur".

The BBC has not seen the document.

In a video posted to his Twitter account, Mr Farage said helium enactment successful a taxable entree petition due to the fact that helium wanted to found the crushed "behind them closing the account".

He said it work similar "a little that you could springiness to a barrister up of a superior transgression trial", and made respective references to Brexit and Russia.

Coutts said: "Our quality to respond is restricted by our obligations of lawsuit confidentiality.

"Decisions to adjacent accounts are not taken lightly and instrumentality into relationship a fig of factors including commercialized viability, reputational considerations, and ineligible and regulatory requirements."

Last month, Mr Farage went nationalist with the information that his relationship was being shut, and said helium believed it was for governmental reasons. He aboriginal said helium had been turned down by 9 different lenders.

But radical acquainted with Coutts' determination subsequently told the BBC it was a "commercial decision", and that the criteria for holding an relationship with the slope "are wide from the bank's website".

Coutts requires its customers to get oregon put astatine slightest £1m with the slope oregon clasp £3m successful savings.

In response, Mr Farage did not quality the information helium did not conscionable Coutts' threshold, but added that the slope had not had a occupation with it for the past 10 years.

He aboriginal tweeted that astatine "no point" had Coutts fixed him a minimum threshold.