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Nigel Farage: 'First rule of banking is client confidentiality'

NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has resigned after leaking information to the BBC about ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Farage said it had taken a "long time" for her to step aside and that anybody in a more junior position at the bank would have been "out of the door".

26 July 2023

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