Coutts CEO stands down in Farage bank account row, as Sunak fails to back NatWest chairman Davies – as it happened

Peter Flavel says Coutts fell below its high standards' in the handling of Nigel Farage's case, while Rishi Sunak declined to say whether he had confidence in NatWest's chairman

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Ed Miliband, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero, says energy firms are bringing in unearned, unexpected profits" due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving up gas prices.

Miliband told BBC Breakfast that the only long-term answer is to move off fossil fuels as quickly as possible, by increasing on-shore and off-shore wind and solar energy systems.

My regret is not just that we don't have a proper windfall tax, we don't have a government commited to that green sprint either.

It beggars belief that after all these months this Conservative Government is still allowing energy firms to rake in extraordinary profits while millions of families struggle."