Britain's finance minister George Osborne is facing criticism for his plans to sell the government's stake in bailed-out bank RBS, at a potential loss.
Mr Osborne has announced he will start selling the taxpayer's shares in Royal Bank of Scotland even though they remain lower than the price paid for them in a £45.5bn ($70bn) bailout in 2008.
He insists the share price will rise as the staged sale of the stake takes place and that the bank and the economy will suffer if the sell-off doesn't start.
And Danny Cox of stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown believes George Osborne is right.
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Political editor at the Financial Times George Parker says it is a gamble.
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