Well, it is Baroness Margaret Thatcher's birthday today and Labour is nationalising banks—oh happy days! My understanding is that, this morning, the Royal Bank of Scotland was worth considerably less than £20 billion. Can my right hon. Friend explain why the Government are paying £20 billion for 63 per cent. of something that was worth a lot less than £20 billion?
Financial Markets
Proceeding contribution from
Rob Marris
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 October 2008.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Financial Markets.
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