Reform UK leader threatened legal action after political views cited as reason for closure of Coutts account

Nigel Farage has settled his high-profile dispute with NatWest Group, nearly two years after the bank closed his accounts and triggered a row that ended with the resignation of the lender’s chief executive.

Dame Alison Rose stood down from the bank in July 2023 after she admitted being the source of an inaccurate BBC story about the reasons Farage had been “debanked”, for which she then issued an apology.