NatWest Debanking Report ‘A Work of Fiction’: Nigel Farage

The findings of a review into Coutts’s debanking record have been labelled “a work of fiction” by Nigel Farage, whose account closures triggered the review. The NatWest-owned private bank, which Mr. Farage said he had banked with for over 40 years, exited the broadcaster and former Brexit Party leader earlier this year without telling him the reason at the time. Mr. Farage on Friday slammed the report produced by Travers Smith, a law firm appointed by NatWest to conduct the review, telling The Telegraph, “The Travers Smith report is a work of fiction. It bears no relation to the contents of the documents disclosed by the bank as to the true reason why they closed my account.”...