DOMINIC LAWSON: It's not just Nigel Farage. My own daughter was blocked from opening a bank account for absurd and perverse reasons
Nigel Farage is even angrier than usual. With good reason. The former leader of the Brexit Party revealed last week that he had been told by the bank he'd been with for more than 40 years that it would be closing his personal and business accounts.
Although he didn't give the name of the bank, it is understood to be Coutts & Co: the poshest of all, with many members of the Royal Family as account holders.
Farage has been unable to discover why he has been dumped by these frock-coated money men. 'I have been given no explanation as to why this is happening to me,' he said.
'This is serious political persecution at the highest level of our system. The Establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.'
Initially, he had said that 'the only explanation I could think of' was the claim last year by the Labour MP, Sir Chris Bryant, that Farage had 'received £548,573 from Russia Today in 2018 alone: this is from the Russian state'.
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