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British taxpayers’ £10.2bn loss on bailout of RBS

By Editorial Board Published May 23, 2025 4 Min Read
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British taxpayers’ £10.2bn loss on bailout of RBS

British taxpayers are set to swallow a lack of simply over £10bn on the 2008 rescue of Royal Financial institution of Scotland (RBS) as the federal government prepares to substantiate that it has offloaded its last-remaining shares within the lender as quickly as subsequent week.

The ultimate invoice will draw a line beneath one of the infamous financial institution bailouts ever orchestrated, and comes practically 17 years after the then chancellor, Lord Darling, performed what RBS’s boss on the time, Fred Goodwin, labelled “a drive-by shooting”.

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Insiders imagine a press release confirming the ultimate shares have been offered may come within the latter a part of subsequent week, though there’s a probability that timetable may very well be prolonged by various days.

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is prone to make a press release concerning the milestone, though insiders say the Treasury and the financial institution are eager to easily mark the event by thanking British taxpayers for his or her protracted help.

A inventory trade submitting disclosing that taxpayers’ stake had fallen beneath 1% was made final week, down from over 80% within the years after the £45.5bn bailout.

The stake now stands at 0.39%, which means the ultimate shares may very well be offloaded as early as the center of subsequent week, relying upon demand.

Whole proceeds from a authorities buying and selling plan launched in 2021 to drip-feed NatWest inventory into the market have to this point reached £12.8bn.

Based mostly on the financial institution’s present share value, the remaining shares ought to fetch within the area of £400m, taking the determine to £13.2bn.

As well as, institutional share gross sales and direct buybacks by NatWest of government-held inventory have yielded an additional £11.5bn.

Dividend funds to the Treasury throughout its possession have totalled £4.9bn, whereas charges and different funds have generated one other £5.6bn.

In mixture, meaning whole proceeds from NatWest since 2008 are anticipated to hit £35.3bn.

Beneath Rick Haythornthwaite and Paul Thwaite, now the financial institution’s chairman and chief govt respectively, NatWest is now targeted on driving progress throughout its enterprise.

It lately tabled an £11bn bid to purchase Santander UK, in response to the Monetary Instances, though no talks are ongoing.

Mr Thwaite changed Dame Alison Rose, who left amid the disaster sparked by the debanking scandal involving Nigel Farage, the Reform UK chief.

Throughout the first 5 years of NatWest’s interval in majority state possession, the financial institution was run by Sir Stephen Hester, now the chairman of easyJet.

Sir Stephen stepped down amid tensions with the then chancellor, George Osborne, about how RBS – because it then was – needs to be run.

Lloyds Banking Group was additionally in partial state possession for years, though taxpayers reaped a web achieve of about £900m from that interval.

Different lenders nationalised through the disaster included Bradford & Bingley, the majority of which was offered to Santander UK, and Northern Rock, a part of which was offered to Virgin Cash – which in flip has been acquired by Nationwide.

NatWest declined to touch upon Friday, whereas the Treasury has been contacted for remark.

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