What I don't know is if you can link ii to transferwise.
I tried, but now they say:
Dear Mr Nowell
Thank you for your recent request to add your Transfer Wise bank
details.
Unfortunately, we are unable to add Transfer Wise ac’s as nominated
bank ac’s as they are primarily a money transfer company. Do you have a
personal current ac that could possibly be added instead?
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this may
cause.
It's not a great answer. Who cares what TW are primarily? Isn't it enough that I have a GBP account with them, with UK sort code and account number (as well as IBAN)? But my experience is that it is rarely worth arguing, one simply finds another solution. In this case, my next step will be to register one of my two Italian EUR banks with them. Probably ING (operating from Milano, by the way) and not Monte dei Paschi, who are local here but keep on finding new ways to annoy me.
I'm still interested to hear from anyone with no UK address who runs a UK GBP current account.