Typical of all government departments in this country .im sure they sit at desks throwing paper aeroplanes at each other .i closed my business in february and it took 8 months to get my end of business vat claim put into my bank ,then another 10 days for lloyds to close a business account and transfer the money into my lloyds personal account.
He could have bought anytime and kept under the 3% threshold .its the fact that he decided to go over the 3% and let it be known he is buying is the key news.