Boris Johnson says Natwest boss must resign if she leaks Nigel Farage account details

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Boris Johnson has called on the Natwest boss to resign if she is found to have leaked Nigel Farage's bank account details to the BBC.

The former prime minister also called on the government to order an investigation into the dispute.

He said that if Dame Alison Rose "was responsible in any way, she really had to go". Writing in his Daily Mail column, Mr Johnson added that he was unsure if she was behind the BBC account.

Dame Alison wrote to Mr Farage earlier this week, insisting that comments made in a filing by Coutts, the royal family's bank which is owned by Natwest, 'do not reflect the views of the bank'.

It came after the arch-Brexiteer said his account had been unjustly closed because the institution disagreed with his political views.

The bank reportedly cited the former Ukip leader's retweet of comedian Ricky Gervais' joke about transwomen, as well as his friendship with tennis champion Novak Djokovic, who opposes Covid vaccinations, to signal that he was "xenophobic and racist".

The dossier also repeated previous press reports, from an old school friend, that a teenaged Farage sang "gas 'em all, gas 'em all", about the Jewish people, as well as his former teacher's press claims that he had "once walked through a village in Sussex singing Hitler Youth songs", which he denies. The 40-page document also describes him as a "dishonest crook".

Mr. Johnson said he did not know whether Dame Alison was behind BBC reports that Mr Farage's account had been closed because he had too little money. But he said Coutts made a "terrible mistake".

He said he read the Coutts dossier "with cold, hard fury".

"They made a terrible mistake. Coutts is no longer the so-called posho bank used by the kids at my school, who used to buy turkey sandwiches from tu...