article_snippet.sent: It is the latest ‘retro’ Conservative policy to hark back to the 1980s, following Mr Cameron’s revival in the manifesto of the Thatcherite
article_snippet.sent: Like Right to Buy, the Treasury also helped to entrench Tory support among voters who benefited from the windfalls.
article_snippet.sent: No 10 strategists hope Mr Cameron’s pledge will remind voters of the economic problems that blighted the country under Mr Brown’s premiership.
article_snippet.sent: With the share price currently above 78p, the Tories will be able claim the Tories have banked a profit running into billions for the taxpayer.
article_snippet.sent: However, while Lloyds has been a success story, the Government’s other big bank investment – Royal Bank of Scotland – has not.
article_snippet.sent: The Treasury under Mr Brown paid an average of 502p a share for RBS when The Treasury under Mr Brown was rescued.
article_snippet.sent: In Mr Cameron’s announcement today, The Treasury under Mr Brown is expected to say: ‘The £20 billion bailout of Lloyds Bank by the last Labour government became a symbol of the crisis that engulfed the British economy under Labour.
article_snippet.sent: After the public bailed it out, people feared people wouldn’t see people money returned.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cameron’s announcement marks another step in the long journey we have been making repairing we banks, turning we around and reducing we national debt, only made possible by we long-term economic plan.
highlights_snippet.sent: Government hold shares after Labour's £20billion bailout in 2008 .
  