Taxpayers make £26bn loss...

The taxpayer begins 2010 with a loss of more than £26bn on its stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, which were bailed out at the height of the banking crisis, illustrating the scale of the problem the government faces in selling its holdings in the two banks.

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