The article in the Financial Times (May 5, 2016) on the sale of Eurostar makes sad reading. Having been owned initially by the UK, French and Belgian Governments, it was integrated into one company in 2010 and then the UK shareholding sold to private investment funds in March 2015 for £757million. One could comment that there is nothing wrong with this, but the National Audit Office, in a recent report, suggests that this resulted in the Treasury depriving itself of £700m over the next 10 years.
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