article_snippet.sent: David Cameron will launch a multi-billion pound sale of Lloyds Bank shares if David Cameron wins the Election – in what would be the largest privatisation bonanza since the Thatcher era.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron will today pledge that if David Cameron is returned to Downing Street David Cameron will offer the public £4 billion of Lloyds shares still held by Government after Gordon Brown’s £20 billion panic bailout with taxpayers’ money during the 2008 economic crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Individuals will be allowed to buy up to £10,000 worth of Lloyds Banking Group shares, which were worth 78.7p when the stock market closed on Friday – comfortably above the 73.6p paid by Mr Brown’s government.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron will launch a multi-billion pound sale of Lloyds Bank shares if David Cameron wins the Election .
article_snippet.sent: Lloyds Bank shares will be offered at a discount of at least 5 per cent on the market rate at the time, with the proceeds used to help pay down the national debt.
article_snippet.sent: The recovery under Chancellor George Osborne has allowed Chancellor George Osborne to sell £9 billion of shares in Lloyds to City investors for more than the price that former chancellor Alistair Darling paid in 2008.
article_snippet.sent: Late last year, UK Financial Investments, the Treasury body that manages the Government stake, hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to sell a few million Lloyds shares in the market every day over a six month period – a practice known as a ‘dribble-out’.
article_snippet.sent: Government still owns £12.5 billion of Lloyds shares and experts expect £4 billion worth to be offered to the public, with the rest sold to City institutions.
highlights_snippet.sent: David Cameron will pledge to sell Lloyds shares if David Cameron wins the election .
  