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"If members vote against it will inevitably would mean significant cost-cutting and branch closure.
"With every branch closure Natwest is slamming its doors on another community, dangerously undermining the bank's long-term future.
He said he was not planning a branch closure programme and would try not to close in small towns.
However, at least 50 branches are to be shut and a "significant" number of jobs will go – though the bank had already embarked on a branch closure programme.
As head of the retail bank, he spent much of his time cutting it down to size - including the mishandled branch closure programme.
Santander had already begun a branch closure programme in anticipation of the deal going ahead, with plans to close 56 branches to reduce overlap in its vast UK network following the takeovers of Abbey National , Alliance& Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
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Campaigners against branch closures have long argued that branch sharing would be a solution.
The Communications Workers Union blamed a long-running dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures.
Green slashed£440m of costs, including the Thomas Cook job losses and 400 high street branch closures.
Nottingham University has produced research that shows similar areas bear the brunt of bank branch closures.
There was no programme for branch closures, he said, but conceded the 1,700-strong 1,700-strongchanetwork
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