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Nigel Farage calls for chairman of NatWest Group to be “replaced at the soonest possible opportunity” over misjudgements in the de-banking scandal.

LONDON — British bank NatWest on Friday said it had launched an independent review into its handling of arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage, whose account it controversially shut, costing top executives their jobs following political pressure. The announcement by chairman Howard Davies came after the lender, 39 per cent owned by the UK government, posted a jump in first-half net

A senior consultant at the law firm hired by NatWest to investigate the closure of Nigel Farage’s account has described Brexit as “a tragedy”.

Harriett Baldwin, chair of the Commons Treasury committee, called on the banking giant and its rivals to stop foot-dragging.

No one could fail to be impressed that in choosing Bernanke to mark the Banks performance on forecasting, the Court chairman David Roberts has recruited the best.

Andrew Griffith's comments come after PM Rishi Sunak refused to back Sir Howard Davies.

Independent review will examine how financial affairs of Nigel Farage fell into hands of BBC

It would not be “helpful” for the NatWest chairman to quit now as the bank seeks to rebound from the crisis over Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank account, the City minister has said.

Chairman refuses to step down before his tenure ends in July next year