NatWest CEO admits ‘serious error’ of discussing Farage bank accounts but clings on to job

Bank warns Alison Rose could see pay docked after controversy over closure of ex-Ukip leader's Coutts accounts

NatWest's beleaguered chief executive, Alison Rose, has admitted she was the source of a controversial BBC report about Nigel Farage's bank accounts and issued a grovelling apology in an attempt to save her job.

Rose said she made a serious error of judgment" in discussing Farage's banking relationship with Coutts, the private banking division of NatWest, in a conversation with a BBC reporter this month.