Nigel Farage launches debanking fightback as 1,000 bank accounts are closed every day - 'This is ruining lives in Britain'

It comes after Farage’s account with Coutts was closed earlier this month after the bank said they no longer wanted him as a customer.

Talking to Camilla Tominey, he said: "Nobody with profile who has been debanked has come forward. Two reasons, one a sense of shame, humiliation and embarrassment but secondly it would damage their prospects of getting any other bank account.

"But what I've learnt is this, it isn't just high profile people with strong opinions that are being closed down by banks that have become completely politicised in the most extraordinary way.

"What I've learned in the three weeks since I came out as it were, I've just been inundated by small businesses, by folk all round the country. People in absolute fear, terror, lives being ruined, thousands of businesses being closed.

"These are people who have done nothing wrong whatsoever."

The former Ukip leader says he wants his de-banking to be a "turning point in this whole appalling behaviour from banks".

He added: "I do not want what has happened to me to happen to anybody else. And it's clear from today's newspapers, it has been happening to an awful lot of people.

"I want this to be a turning point in this whole appalling behaviour from banks, whether it's high profile figures or people running a fish stall. What has happened within this industry is wrong.

"It's become frankly self-serving in its own interests. It's damaging Britain and I want real change."

A 40-page dossier revealed Coutts chiefs made a concerted effort to “exit” him as a customer as they didn’t believe Farage aligned with their views.

He said: "I want to see a cultural change but Government and Parliament needs to go through the legislation, this simply isn't working. It's not just ruining lives in Britain, it's damaging businesses in Britain.

"The information we've got out today is that 1000 bank accounts a day are being closed, a day. Every single day a thousand people whether it's their personal or business accounts are being closed down.

"There are tens and thousands of people out there, maybe more, who are being wronged by the banks whose lives have been ruined, they have had no-one to speak for them.

"They've been suffering in silence and that's why I've launched this website today accountclosed.org if you've been closed down, if you've been suspended then come and tell me who you are, help me to help you."