Nigel Farage Coutts report: Bank's hatred for ex-Brexit Party leader laid bare as GB News shares damning dossier which exposes the truth

But a 40-page dossier shows Coutts chiefs made a concerted effort to “exit” him as a customer as they didn’t believe the former Ukip leader aligned with their views.

Screenshots have now been shared which go against reports that he fell below the financial threshold needed to hold an account with the bank.

The bank requires at least £1million with the bank or £3m in savings.

The report states that "while it is accepted that no criminal convictions have resulted, commentary and behaviours that do not align to the bank's purpose and values have been demonstrated".

The GB News presenter was also labelled a racist and xenophobe.

In addition, they cited his support of former US President Donald Trump and tennis champion Novak Djokovic and his GB News debates about the Covid-19 vaccines as reasons for the cancellation.

Farage was also described as a backer of Russia President Vladimir Putin as part of his war with Ukraine war and a transphobe for retweeting a clip of Ricky Gervais’s stand-up routine.

Coutts cited at least 83 media articles as part of its smear campaign in the file which mentioned "Russia" 144 times, "Brexit" on 86 occasions and "racist" had 12 instances.

The dossier noted that there was "no evidence of regulator or legal censure" of Farage, that he was "professional, polite and respectful" to staff and that he had recently been downgraded from a "higher risk politically exposed person [PEP]" to lower risk, and was on the way to being classed as no risk at all.

Farage said: "The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.”

Other customers who claimed to have been abandoned by lenders due to their political views have also come forward.

They included a priest who said his account was shut because he complained about his building society's messages during Pride month.

The closure of Farage’s bank accounts has also been slammed as “outrageous and wrong” by Energy Secretary Grant Shapps.

He told GB News: “It's absolutely unacceptable. I don't have to agree with everything that Nigel Farage says or anything for that matter. It wouldn't make any difference.

“The idea that you should be unbanked because of your political views in a democratic system is outrageous and wrong.

“And I'm afraid it's not just Nigel Farage, for years now under this thing called the Politically Exposed Persons legislation banks, and I'm afraid I think probably the FCA, have been allowing this to go on for far too long and it’s entirely wrong.”

In a discussion with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, he continued: “A lot of people who go into public service should not have to expect for their bank accounts to be closed, or indeed as often happens. for banks to refuse to open bank accounts and it's not just Coutts, it's other banks as well.

“And actually for their families as well to be put under absolute extraordinary measures by these banks, who sometimes want to know your inside leg measurement before they open a bank account, or the family of somebody has to be in public because it's all unacceptable.”

He added: “My colleague, the Treasury minister Andrew Griffith, is actually on this at the moment and proposing changes and will be making a statement to Parliament about it.

“I know it cannot be right that when people choose to go into public service, and regardless of their views, and I say I don't have to agree with Nigel Farage his views or Labour politicians views or or whoever that is not the point.

“The point is, people should be able to get banked and there is no excuse for the banks not allowing those bank accounts to remain open and by the way, often to refuse to open them in the first place.”