It's the early hours of the morning here in London and we have still to see any response from Nigel Farage to news of Dame Alison Rose's departure.
For those who don't know who he is, the 59-year-old has helped shaped British politics in recent years as he led the campaign for the UK to have a referendum on leaving the European Union in 2016 - which ultimately happened.
Born on 3 April 1964 in Kent, Nigel Paul Farage attended fee-paying Dulwich College but at the age of 18 he decided not to go to university and worked in the City instead.
He also developed an interest in politics and initially joined the Conservatives but became disillusioned with the way the party was going under John Major and was furious when the prime minister signed the Maastricht Treaty, stipulating an "ever-closer union" between European nations.
Farage decided to break away and became one of the founder members of the UK Independence Party, which was then known as the Anti-Federalist League.
He stepped down from the party after the 2016 referendum saw 52% of voters choose to leave the EU, but returned to politics in 2019 when he launched The Brexit Party during former Prime Minister Theresa May's disastrous negotiations to create a divorce deal with the bloc.
Farage is now a television presenter on GB News.
Watch: How a complicated scandal unfolded
The boss of one of Britain's biggest banks apologised to the former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after a row over the closure of his Coutts bank account.
Dame Alison Rose, chief executive of Natwest, which owns Coutts, said comments made about him were "deeply inappropriate". Early on Wednesday, she resigned from her post.
Farage said his account had been closed because his political views did not align with the bank's values. The government has announced that banks will now face tougher rules over closing customers' accounts in a move designed to protect freedom of expression.
The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looked at the dispute in more detail last week as the scandal began brewing.
Watch his analysis from 20 July below.
Over three decades in banking, Dame Alison Rose, the head of NatWest Group, forged a reputation as a champion of women in business.
Now she finds herself at the centre of a row between the former leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, and NatWest's private banking arm, Coutts, which has cut the Brexiteer loose as a client.
As head of NatWest Group, formerly known as the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Rose had overseen a bank with some 19 million customers in the UK and 60,000 employees globally.
She got the top job in 2019, becoming the first woman to lead a major British bank.
Speaking to BBC Scotland last year, the mum-of-two, now 53, said the cost of living crisis presented challenges because so many firms and customers had no experience of high inflation and rising lending rates.
She encouraged younger women to set up in business. Rather than taking a hammer to the glass ceiling, she calculated how much more could be gained if women reached the same level of business activity in Britain as in similar countries, with a round figure of £250bn of revenue flowing through the UK economy.
"Has there been enough progress? No," she told Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland business and economy editor.
"We're not at parity, we're not at equality, but we are seeing more focus. The burdens and barriers are still there, but the concerted action to address some of these barriers is making a difference."
Read more about Rose here:
The bank boss caught up in the Nigel Farage row
