A bit rich: Why I back Nigel Farage in his battle with the banks

Now he’s out of politics, and being ‘cancelled’ by his bank, we should all support the former Brexit leader. That’s a sentence Chris Blackhurst never thought he would write

Farage has said that a ‘high-end’ institution closed his account without explanation (Getty)

There are plenty of people, let’s face it, who if they were sat near Nigel Farage in a restaurant, would ask to be moved or leave the place completely. Equally, there are those who would stop by his table for a chat, who would delight in seeing one of their political own.

He’s Marmite alright, is Nigel. But does that make him a bad person, the sort that a bank should refuse to serve?

It does not. Coutts – if indeed it is that bank which he is choosing not to name, instead referring to it as a “high-end” institution that closed his account (it’s known he had a mortgage with them) without explanation – should be ashamed. According to the former Brexit leader, other high street banks then refused to allow him to transfer his funds to them.