"When I say 'get rid of it', I mean put it into the good hands of the private sector", Osborne said in an interview with the FT. (http://on.ft.com/1H1GxTM)
Osborne said that for several years he has been going along with the bank's then insistence that it was going to be a viable business with operations all over the world, the FT said.Osborne is looking to follow a "Tell Sid"-type privatization model for the sale of the taxpayer's stake in Lloyds Banking Group Plc