Life comes at you fast if you are the person responsible for maintaining the shareholder register at NatWest.
Until last week, it was hoped that the bank would be at the centre of Jeremy Hunt’s plans to get millions more Britons investing in the stock market.
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The chancellor first said last year that he hoped a new generation of retail investors could “engage with public markets” by buying some or all of the government’s remaining shareholding in NatWest.
With a nod to Margaret Thatcher’s successful privatisations in the late 1980s – which saw more than 10 million Britons become shareholders for the first time via stakes in businesses like British Telecom, British Airways and Rolls-Royce – the chancellor conjured up the spirit of the “If you see Sid, tell him” advertising campaign that, in autumn 1986, convinced more than…
