by Thomas Brooke, ReMix News:

The conservative broadcaster described the “Stasi-style surveillance report” on him the bank was obliged to disclose via a subject access request as “shocking”

Nigel Farage had his bank accounts shut down with the high-net-worth bank Coutts after officials decided the former conservative politician’s views did not align with the bank’s values, it has emerged.

The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader went public last month with the difficulties he was having in opening a U.K. bank account after Coutts, an institution he had been banking with for almost a decade, inexplicably closed his accounts and several other banks refused his applications to open a new one.