Coutts Bank boss quits over Farage account row

The brag of Coutts, the prestigious backstage slope for the wealthy, has stepped down implicit the handling of Nigel Farage's slope relationship closure.

Peter Flavel volition permission arsenic main enforcement of Coutts by communal consent with contiguous effect.

He said the handling of Mr Farage's lawsuit had "fallen beneath the bank's precocious standards of idiosyncratic service".

His departure comes aft the brag of NatWest Group, Alison Rose, which owns Coutts, resigned connected Wednesday.

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