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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nimo Omer

Thursday briefing: What the Coutts/Farage row reveals about banking in Britain

Alison Rose, ex-NatWest  chief, and Nigel Farage.
Alison Rose, former NatWest chief, and Nigel Farage. Composite: Getty/PA

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It has been almost a month since Nigel Farage launched an almighty tirade against NatWest-owned Coutts – a British private bank and wealth manager whose elite client list includes King Charles and most of the royal family. It was relatively unknown to most people until it attracted the ire of Farage, who first claimed the closures were linked to his status as a politically exposed person (PEP) and claims in the Commons that he had received payments from Moscow’s state-funded broadcaster Russia Today.

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