vonnie: it is intense, and martin sorrell just getting paid 70 million british pounds, equivalent tou.s., you can see why there might be onalso on the brexit score, the european side of things, he would rather that britain does not take extra advantages from being partnered th the european union than it should. yeah.ne: one of the things that has come out is that there is a lot of u.k. politicians and businessmen that want their country to stay within the e.u., and there are a lot of politicians within the would like you to leave. we have a slew of bank earnings barclays, and now we have rbs. michael, you have been across all of these earnings. of is significant because u.k. government owns a big chunk of that. it means they will have to hold on to that child for much longer. muchel: it depends on how of a loss they are willing to take on the sale. it is down from the bailout price. but you had rbs kind of taking the beginning steps, paying the dividend access share to start to start that process of the government getting out. that was known, and that drove a lot of the loss. but eve

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