the controversy culminated in the resignation of chief executive dame alison rose.stake" in disclosing details of the former ukip leader's bank account. joining me now is our business correspondent, theo leggett. remind us of how we got to this point? this tipped off a political row and focused a pretty harsh spotlight on the decisions banks take on who they do and do not choose to do business with. it all started with nigel faraj who injune said that his bank accounts had been closed, and he thought it was because of his political views. thought it was because of his politicalviews. he thought it was because of his political views. he claimed he was being persecuted. true, that would have been illegal. a few days later, a bbc report was published which had a bbc report was published which had a different version of events, claiming that mr faraj�*s accounts at coutts, a private bank for very wealthy people owned by nat west, decided to close down his accounts because he didn't meet their strict financial criteria. mr faraj reacted angrily to her that —— angrily to

yet a few months later, dame alison rose on the 20th of july, said that i've written to him today, meaning. to make clear that we apologise and we reiterate our offer of alternative banking arrangements with natwest group . oh, alison with natwest group. oh, alison rose . you do so well, don't you? rose. you do so well, don't you? or at least you think you do well covering up lie after lie after lie. are you really going to walk away from that board meeting on thursday with £11.3 million, given that this bank is nearly 40% owned by the state? but even more seriously , in but even more seriously, in these documents , i mean, try these documents, i mean, try this for size . he got paid from this for size. he got paid from the kremlin. bet he's a spy. yep. they genuinely believe moved. i was in the pay of russian money. the previous statement i read out mentioned russian connections. my links to russian connections. my links to russia were mentioned 144 times in the coutts subject access request . i'll say it in the coutts subject access request. i'll say it again. he got paid from the kremli

yet a few months later, dame alison rose on the 20th of july, said that i've written to him today, meaning. to make clear that we apologise and we reiterate our offer of alternative banking arrangements with natwest group . oh, alison with natwest group. oh, alison rose . you do so well, don't you? rose. you do so well, don't you? or at least you think you do well covering up lie after lie after lie. are you really going to walk away from that board meeting on thursday with £11.3 million, given that this bank is nearly 40% owned by the state? but even more seriously , in but even more seriously, in these documents , i mean, try these documents, i mean, try this for size . he got paid from this for size. he got paid from the kremlin. bet he's a spy. yep. they genuinely believe moved. i was in the pay of russian money. the previous statement i read out mentioned russian connections. my links to russian connections. my links to russia were mentioned 144 times in the coutts subject access request . i'll say it in the coutts subject access request. i'll say it again. he got paid from the kremli

this is when dame alison rose had broken client confidentiality, had briefed that the business editore bbc and the headline was nigel farage bank account shut for falling below the wealth limit, which we know not to be true. and that led to much internal debate and one of alison rose's team concluded that it was really very simple. it was just because , as i was some kind of because, as i was some kind of awful human being. yes, you're an awful human being. and lol laugh out loud , but i guess that laugh out loud, but i guess that pleased them because as i started to respond publicly on this internal whatsapp group within the head office of natwest, it was said, what's the crackpot saying now? well, all right, maybe they get me on that one. i'll give them that. but here's the one that really shows you and tells you so much about these people. they actually thought and hoped that because they'd closed me down and at the time , nobody else would have me, time, nobody else would have me, that maybe , just maybe, i would that maybe, just maybe, i would even be driven out of the country, w

this is when dame alison rose had broken client confidentiality, had briefed that the business editor bbc and the headline was nigel farage bank account shut for falling below the wealth limit, which we know not to be true. and that led to much internal debate and one of alison rose's team concluded that it was really very simple. it was just because , as i was some kind of because, as i was some kind of awful human being. yes, you're an awful human being. and lol laugh out loud , but i guess that laugh out loud, but i guess that pleased them because as i started to respond publicly on this internal whatsapp group within the head office of natwest, it was said, what's the crackpot saying now? well, all right, maybe they get me on that one. i'll give them that. but here's the one that really shows you and tells you so much about these people. they actually thought and hoped that because they'd closed me down and at the time , nobody else would have me, time, nobody else would have me, that maybe , just maybe, i would that maybe, just maybe, i would even be driven out of the country, wh

and we'll be looking at dame alison rose because a review has found that natwest group's decision to on't go anywhere me, michael portillo gb news britain's new . channel britain's new. channel >> good afternoon. it's just coming up to 24 minutes after 5:00. i'm nana akua . this is gb 5:00. i'm nana akua. this is gb news. we are the people's channel. it's time now though, for the great british debate this hour. and i'm asking , this hour. and i'm asking, should dame alison rose get her big payout after the farage de—banking scandal? now the former natwest boss is up for a payout of worth 2.4 million. that's after she stepped down following a row over the way she the way the bank closed nigel's accounts. well sort of thing. but she sort of broke the banking code as well. so that's sort of what happened there. dame also set to dame alison is also set to benefit and share benefit from bonuses and share awards, push the awards, which could push the amount up to nearer £10 million, which has been branded as a bit of a sick joke by the former ukip leader. yesterday, an independent review re

dame alison rose, the chief executive of natwest admitted she was the source of the bbc story and she. the bank then commissioned this review from the law firm travers smith. the review has said quite clearly the decision was made predominantly on commercial grounds. it said his political views, mr farage's political views did come into it, but they were not the main feature. it said there were serious failings on behalf of natwest, but that was mainly in the way the decision was communicated to mr farage and also in the way that dame alison spoke to a bbc journalist about his private financial affairs, which was a data protection breach. so this review has come in and mr farage has claimed it is a white watch, he said it is laughable. dame alison has said it shows the error she committed were relatively minor —— whitewash. she thought something was in the public domain when it wasn't. so overall, i'm not sure this review satisfies anybody, but it does try and inject clarity into what did become a major scandal over the summer. become a ma'or scandal over the summer. ., become a ma'or

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dame alison rose has breached data protection laws. she has breached client confidentiality . it's not confidentiality. and it's not just me saying that this is the information commissioner's office and it would be an outrage. as i say , if she walked outrage. as i say, if she walked away with a huge sum of money, 40% of which is funded by you at home. and these people in the room, we need genuine reform of our banking system. now one of the reasons i finished up in such hot water with the bank was because of a south wales distinguished member of parliament. he he represents the rhondda , his name is sir chris rhondda, his name is sir chris bryant . and earlier on today, gb bryant. and earlier on today, gb news reporter ben leo caught up in westminster with sir chris. listen in nato gb news enjoyed your talk. >> would you like to make a proper apology to nigel farage for the fake news that you spread about his russia links ? spread about his russia links? yes i have corrected the record in the house of commons and that's all i'm going to do. you did. but it was a rather mealy

dame alison rose has breached data protection laws. she has breached client confidentiality . it's not confidentiality. and it's not just me saying that this is the information commissioner's office and it would be an outrage. as i say , if she walked outrage. as i say, if she walked away with a huge sum of money, 40% of which is funded by you at home. and these people in the room, we need genuine reform of our banking system. now one of the reasons i finished up in such hot water with the bank was because of a south wales distinguished member of parliament. he he represents the rhondda , his name is sir chris rhondda, his name is sir chris bryant . and earlier on today, gb bryant. and earlier on today, gb news reporter ben leo caught up in westminster with sir chris. listen in nato gb news enjoyed your talk. >> would you like to make a proper apology to nigel farage for the fake news that you spread about his russia links ? spread about his russia links? yes i have corrected the record in the house of commons and that's all i'm going to do. you did. but it was a rather mealy

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, which could dame alison rose, which could rake in more than £10 million in pay, rake in more nuses and stock. yet seriously , look at the numbers seriously, look at the numbers involved there . rose left the involved there. rose left the bank after acknowledging that she had inaccurately briefed a bbc journalist about the reasons for closing faraj's and for closing faraj's account. and yesterday , a watchdog ruled that yesterday, a watchdog ruled that rose broke data rules for sharing that information. so there's quite a lot wrong here. all right. a heck of a lot wrong, actually. kelvin joins me now is nigel right to demand the disgraced former ceo dame alison rose? shouldn't get a bumper payout kelvin . nigel has been payout kelvin. nigel has been right about this from day one and in enormously successful one man campaign. >> had that been you or me or most people, we would be de—banking and that would be the end of it. what his research shows is that at the heart of coutts, they had a wealth committee and they all sat around sending each other emails saying disobliging thing

at it, we're assured that dame alison rose will not be leaving the bank with the full £11 million that'sonuses for performance . so there's going to performance. so there's going to be quite a big cut and i'm guessing in doing that they'll hope that it covers up whatever horrors there are about me in their subject access request . their subject access request. but i'm pleased to say that at least one of the high street banksis least one of the high street banks is doesn't act with political prejudice at least not with me. and that is lloyds bank, who have offered me both personal and business accounts and having been turned down, having been rejected by ten different banks . and i can't different banks. and i can't even begin to tell you how nice it is for at least one of them to say, we're happy to do your business, but folks, this isn't the end of the story. far from it. because what i've learned since i launched this back in the summer is that there are over a million of you who, over the course of the last 4 or 5 years have had your bank accounts closed, some personal, some business,

at it, we're assured that dame alison rose will not be leaving the bank with the full £11 million that'suses for performance . so there's going to performance. so there's going to be quite a big cut and i'm guessing in doing that they'll hope that it covers up whatever horrors there are about me in their subject access request . their subject access request. but i'm pleased to say that at least one of the high street banksis least one of the high street banks is doesn't act with political prejudice at least not with me. and that is lloyds bank, who have offered me both personal and business accounts and having been turned down, having been rejected by ten different banks . and i can't different banks. and i can't even begin to tell you how nice it is for at least one of them to say, we're happy to do your business, but folks, this isn't the end of the story. far from it. because what i've learned since i launched this back in the summer is that there are over a million of you who, over the course of the last 4 or 5 years have had your bank accounts closed, some personal, some business, s

that's the natwest board, that's the natwest board, that's the natwest board that insisted that dame alison rosehould stay in position . one despite leaking position. one despite leaking the details of my banking situation to the bbc's business correspondent. now that's saying natwest board must have found themselves in a bit of a pickle today because the ico report that was released last night from the information commissioner's office said that, yes. alison rose had very clearly broken the law . so we've clearly broken the law. so we've heard nothing at all. we're also waiting for the travers—smith report. this is the so called independent report that will be put into the whole saga. and it's coming from a firm who's emeritus chair, chris hale has described brexiteers as racists and xenophobes as so we can look fonnard to a jolly independent report, can't we? i've seen the report, can't we? i've seen the report , i've read the report. report, i've read the report. i'm not really allowed to say what's in it, but i don't think it's going to actually bear much fruit. you see what really matters i

that's the natwest board, that's the natwest board, that's the natwest board that insisted that dame alison rosehould stay in position . one despite leaking position. one despite leaking the details of my banking situation to the bbc's business correspondent. now that's saying natwest board must have found themselves in a bit of a pickle today because the ico report that was released last night from the information commissioner's office said that, yes. alison rose had very clearly broken the law . so we've clearly broken the law. so we've heard nothing at all. we're also waiting for the travers—smith report. this is the so called independent report that will be put into the whole saga. and it's coming from a firm who's emeritus chair, chris hale has described brexiteers as racists and xenophobes as so we can look fonnard to a jolly independent report, can't we? i've seen the report, can't we? i've seen the report , i've read the report. report, i've read the report. i'm not really allowed to say what's in it, but i don't think it's going to actually bear much fruit. you see what really matters i

at a moment, i'll tell you what dame alison rose's team had to say about me under her woke culture atut me. i wonder at the board meeting that comes up this thursday whether she should really walk away with £11 million. we'll look back at the weekend's marches, the chanting that was going on, the flags that were being carried. i'll the question does i'll ask the question does radical islam now have free reign this country? did the reign in this country? did the police or do they police get it wrong or do they need powers and we'll need more powers and we'll finish with finance as well. the phillips scandal, how phillips truss scandal, how people who were clients of building society bars were referred to companies . they lost referred to companies. they lost an awful lot of money. some of these one of the victims these people, one of the victims joins tonight. would joins me tonight. it would appear the financial conduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply cial conduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply don't)nduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply don't care:t

dame alison rose £11 million, 40% of it coming from the taxpayer . yeah. the taxpayer.t's amazing . a&e made 10 million amazing. a&e made 10 million last yeah shocking. last year. yeah it's shocking. did you remember that story about louis? was you about you, louis? it was you having at the monarchy, having a pop at the monarchy, wasn't monarchy? having a pop at the monarchy, wasyeah. monarchy? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> only would have the >> only louis would have the whatever takes on gb news. whatever it takes on gb news. >> the chutzpah, the chutzpah. because i know the people out there monarchy. i'm there love the monarchy. but i'm an i don't. we got an american and i don't. we got rid of the monarchy. they should have got rid of the have learned and got rid of the monarchy, have learned and got rid of the monarciyou've been in the >> yes. you've also been in the papers. one day every single gb news presenter will be in the papers. let's have a look at the guardian and there a cultural guardian and is there a cultural issue mps guardian and is there a cultural issue than

at a moment, i'll tell you what dame alison rose's team had to say about me under her woke culture atd to say about me. i wonder at the board meeting that comes up this thursday whether she should really walk away with £11 million. we'll look back at the weekend's marches, the chanting that was going on, the flags that were being carried. i'll the question does i'll ask the question does radical islam now have free reign this country? did the reign in this country? did the police or do they police get it wrong or do they need powers and we'll need more powers and we'll finish with finance as well. the phillips scandal, how phillips truss scandal, how people who were clients of building society bars were referred to companies . they lost referred to companies. they lost an awful lot of money. some of these one of the victims these people, one of the victims joins tonight. would joins me tonight. it would appear the financial conduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply cial conduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply don't)nduct joins me tonight. it would appear thsimply d

well, clearly actually it was widespread within the bank and this goes directly to dame alison rose'ssion and diversity. we were all so lovely and very , very all so lovely and very, very nice and wonderful people unless of course you disagree with us and then we think you're utterly beastly. it is the illiberalism of those who believe themselves to have values . and you to have liberal values. and you can from these messages can see from these messages coming from many people that worked in head office that this was writ large across the organisation. so you've just read out some of the stuff that i revealed yesterday and tonight at 7:00 i'll be telling people what they had to say about my connections with russia. it is absolutely astonishing . one of absolutely astonishing. one of the biggest cases of fake news you've ever seen in your entire life. but they believed it. they believed it backed up by a journalist at an outlet of note. >> then there was a ted talk involved. then there was a netflix . netflix. >> well, there was, of course, the russia hoax that came from the guardian,

this lady, dame alison rose £11 million to just do what?ys perfect. yes. you make mistakes and time to time you own up and get on with it. but if you're responsible for what's gone wrong, then expect not to walk away with money. but actually be thrown out with some enthusiasm you enthusiasm because you have brought into brought the company into disrepute, you , but the disrepute, not just you, but the company, the value and brand value of that business. it's worth millions . and she's worth millions. and she's decided to be able to trash decided just to be able to trash it. the rest of the it. and then the rest of the board, frankly, sort of going along with it. and we'll see how it goes in the future. that's not good enough. if you want to have responsible banking, which people i'm people internationally say, i'm going money with that going to put money with that bank behaves properly going to put money with that bank that's behaves properly going to put money with that bank that's b then�*s properly going to put money with that bank that'

what people were most interested in today was former chief executive dame alison rose, who had to resign is doing much better betweenjuly and september. its profits were way higher than the same period last year, the article is due to high interest rates, the bank charging higher mortgage fees for its customers. these profits not as high as earlier this year. there was an accusation that banks were not doing enough to pass on rate rises to savers as well as borrowers. the key bit of information everyone still wants to know is what is happening about the former ceo. eight million people could be waiting for routine, non—urgent nhs treatment in england by next summer, regardless of whether doctors continue striking over pay — that's according to new analysis by the health foundation. the charity says that currently, 7.75 million people are waiting for appointments and operations in england. our health editor hugh pym reports. protect the nhs. we are the nhs. strikes in the nhs have dominated health news for much of this year, although junior doctors and consultants are now in talks over re

and because i'm not going to put up with this, this is the culture that the queen of woke dame alison rose bank of natwest andindeed throughout the bank of natwest and indeed the subsidiaries like coutts. it's funny , isn't it in coutts. it's funny, isn't it in life those who talk about diversity and inclusion are actually the most illiberal , actually the most illiberal, narrow minded people you could even narrow minded people you could ever, ever want to meet. she is responsible for this culture. now the significance of the timing of this should not be lost on anybody . on thursday of lost on anybody. on thursday of this week , there is a full board this week, there is a full board meeting of natwest, and on friday morning we'll get the quarterly figures after the coots debacle. they appoint did what they called an in—depth dependent person to come in to look at what had happened to jarvis smith are a city company who's emeritus chair, has described brexiteers as racists , described brexiteers as racists, xenophobes and little englanders . well, some independents for you. but at this thu

former natwest group ceo dame alison rose resigned in disgrace back in july after a grovelling apology more than £11 million. despite presiding over the de—banking scandal that rocked the nation. so in the light of these shocking messages at natwest, is it a crime to be at natwest, is it a crime to be a small c conservative? and does this go beyond banks ? has the this go beyond banks? has the british workforce become fully woke? derek what do you think about this? do you think it's a crime to be a small c conservative? >> britain is comprised of small c conservatives, so is the financial services sector . i financial services sector. i have something to declare. i have something to declare. i have an interest in a private bank and we should actually make a distinction between retail banking and private banking . banking and private banking. it's that the retail end where there is the problem and why we should be particularly interested in this story is that we as taxpayers own 39% of natwest and we should be very concerned that this person who led natwest to a shameful episode that re

. >> this was the culture that dame alison rose took natwest to, and i hope the board deal with it properlyith it properly. >> now this show is nothing without you and your input, so please do email in your thoughts and opinions on all of the stories we're covering today. gb views at gbnews.com is the address to email. but before we get to all of that, let's have a little look at the latest headunes little look at the latest headlines with ray addison . headlines with ray addison. >> thanks, guys . good morning. >> thanks, guys. good morning. it's 931. our top stories, the government says at least ten british citizens have been killed in the israel—hamas war and a further six are still missing . the confirmation comes missing. the confirmation comes after british national yakov was released by her kidnappers. hamas says the 85 year old, along with israeli citizen nurit coopen along with israeli citizen nurit cooper, were freed on humanitarian grounds. her husband's are still being held. israeli sources say the move is straight out of the hamas playbook and it will not divert them from, quot

exit fee of its former boss, dame alison rose, after she was found to have broken data protection lawsuch more after your morning's news with . ray j's guys. with. ray j's guys. >> 1132. our top stories as the government has held an emergency cobra meeting on the escalating crisis in the middle east, this after the prime minister called for a pause in the war between israel and hamas for humanitarian reasons , but humanitarian reasons, but rejected pleas for a ceasefire. the cabinet meeting , chaired by the cabinet meeting, chaired by the deputy pm also addressed the government's strategy to help free british hostages who are among more than 220 being held and well. meanwhile, israel launched its biggest incursion into gaza overnight with tanks temporarily entering the strip, paving the way for the next stages of combat . the israel stages of combat. the israel defence forces say fighter jets also hit over 250 hamas targets , also hit over 250 hamas targets, including infrastructure and tunnels shafts. a fresh wave of rockets were also fired from the territory towards southern israel.

the ruling from the information watchdog said the disclosure by the now former ceo dame alison rose wasengland are using foreign doctors as cheap labour. that's just one of the accusations from an investigation by the british medical journal foreign doctors can work in english hospital trusts for two years as fellows to gain experience to implement in their home countries. but the bmj says the training schemes are exploited live, with some fellows being paid less than others and not receiving guaranteed guaranteed overtime pay - pay. >> at pay- >> at least 22 people have been killed, 60 injured in lewiston in maine, in the states after a gunman opened fire at a bowling alley . we believe more than 60 alley. we believe more than 60 people have been injured. the gunman himself. police have named him , but he is still at named him, but he is still at large . large. >> let's get your weather update now . now. >> hello . very good morning to >> hello. very good morning to you. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. bit of a gloomy one out there this morning.

. >> this was the culture that dame alison rose took natwest to, and i hope the board deal with it properly we're covering today.

for the departing natwest , dame departing chief of natwest, dame alison to be in alison rose, rumourederely in question, though, isn't it? >> actually. think coutts >> actually. i also think coutts has i mean the whole has done this. i mean the whole private bank, well, there's not anything about how anything very private about how they their dealings they were doing their dealings were don't know how they were they. i don't know how they can themselves can even call themselves that. they had a trade they should be had a trade descriptions really. >> be reacting to >> well we will be reacting to this story throughout the day on gb hopefully we talk gb news. hopefully we can talk to little bit to nigel farage a little bit later on. we've only got about 20s left, so . so, andrew, do you 20s left, so. so, andrew, do you want to tell us in 20s about bedbugs? well, i will. >> the mum has found bedbugs in a butlin's skegness , which is a butlin's skegness, which is quite extraordinary and worst of all, this was actually a gold apartment, so heaven knows what was going on in silver. >> yes .