Chancellor has concerns as NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose admits 'serious error'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has "significant concerns" astir the behaviour of NatWest brag Dame Alison Rose, BBC News has been told.

Dame Alison admitted a "serious error" successful talking astir Nigel Farage's narration with its backstage banking limb Coutts.

She said she had been incorrect to respond to questions from the BBC astir Mr Farage's relationship being closed.

Dame Alison has faced calls to resign from Mr Farage and respective Tory MPs.

Those calling for her resignation see erstwhile furniture curate David Davis.

Nigel Farage, the erstwhile person of UKIP, had demanded NatWest explicate however his fiscal accusation was made nationalist arsenic the enactment implicit his slope relationship closure escalated.

NatWest said it inactive had afloat assurance successful Dame Alison astatine the helm.

Dame Alison's apology connected Tuesday day comes aft the BBC apologised for its inaccurate study earlier this period which said Mr Farage's relationship was being closed due to the fact that helium nary longer met the wealthiness threshold for Coutts, citing a root acquainted with the matter.

In her archetypal admittance that she had been involved, Dame Alison said successful conversations with BBC concern exertion Simon Jack "she had confirmed that Mr Farage was a Coutts lawsuit and helium had been offered a NatWest slope account".

She said she had believed this was nationalist knowledge.

The NatWest brag said she did not uncover immoderate idiosyncratic fiscal accusation astir Mr Farage.

"In effect to a wide question astir eligibility criteria required to slope with Coutts and NatWest I said that guidance connected some was publically disposable connected their websites.

"In doing so, I recognise that I near Mr Jack with the content that the determination to adjacent Mr Farage's accounts was solely a commercialized one," she said.

She added: "I was incorrect to respond to immoderate question raised by the BBC astir this case. I privation to widen my sincere apologies to Mr Farage for the idiosyncratic wounded this has caused him and I person written to him today."

Simon Clarke, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, tweeted that the chancellor would beryllium close to person concerns.

"The full contented has been a disgrace from commencement to finish," helium wrote.

MP Saqib Bhatti, the Conservative Party's vice-chairman for business, earlier said: "While it's not for politicians to find what the institution should do, her presumption would look to present beryllium untenable."