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    Coutts boss quits over Nigel Farage banking row

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The boss of upmarket private bank Coutts has resigned over his role in the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank accounts. Peter Flavel acknowledged the handling of Mr Farage’s case “fell below Coutts’s high […] More

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    Treasury officials weigh 40-year mortgages to help first-time buyers

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Ministers are considering a shakeup of lending laws that would encourage banks to offer 40-year mortgages to help first-time buyers. The long-term fixed-rate deals, which are popular in the Netherlands and Denmark, allow […] More

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    Ireland won’t offer condolences to Russia if Putin dies, Varadkar says

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not think the Irish government would offer condolences to Russia in the event of Vladimir Putin’s death. Mr Varadkar was responding to a question relating to […] More

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    Keir Starmer says ‘a woman is an adult female’ on self-identification system

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A self-identification system to allow transgender people to legally identify as their chosen gender without a medical diagnosis is not the “right way forward”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes after Labour […] More

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    NatWest sees £850m wiped from its value after Nigel Farage calls for heads to roll

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Dame Alison Rose’s dead-of-night resignation as NatWest chief executive wiped £850m off the value of the taxpayer-backed bank. Her decision to quit – after admitting she leaked a story about Nigel Farage’s Coutts […] More