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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Archie Mitchell

Now pressure builds on Coutts boss after NatWest CEO quits over Farage scandal: ‘Unsustainable at every level’

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NatWest could have avoided a 3 per cent drop in its share and the loss of its CEO if Coutts boss Peter Flavel had taken responsibility for debanking him, Nigel Farage has suggested as he called Mr Flavel’s position “unsustainable”.

The former Brexit Party leader told The Independent he wrote to Mr Flavel three times after hearing his Coutts account would be closed, but was “not given the courtesy of a response”.

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