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Nigel Farage has called for a “cultural change” at NatWest and within the wider industry, as he promised to continue to campaign on account closures.Mr Farage said NatWest “ought to go back to being a bank, rather than being a moral arbiter for political positions”.He hit out at the wider NatWest Board in wake of the resignation of Dame Alison Rose. He said: “Anybody on that Board that backed that statement that was put out at 17.42 yesterday, a totally unsustainable and untrue statement, anybody that backed that behaviour, should be gone.” More

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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Downing Street and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are understood to have “significant concerns” about the position of NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose after she admitted being the source of an inaccurate story about Nigel […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has resigned from her position after admitting to being the source of an inaccurate story about Nigel Farage’s finances. In a statement released early on Wednesday morning, NatWest […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior Labour figures have accused Rishi Sunak of a “desperate and pathetic” attack after he claimed the party was “on the same side” as criminal gangs trafficking people to the UK. Shadow frontbencher […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Michael Gove has insisted the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales is an “immovable” deadline, but said some of Rishi Sunak’s climate plans including the phasing out of gas boilers […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Michael Gove is going to Evia in a week despite Greek authorities evacuating parts of the island. The housing secretary is visiting the island, off the eastern coast of mainland Greece, after it […] More