Chronicle article reads to me like the PL and FO were preparing the ground for an announcement on the takeover in the Spring/early Summer, only for something to scupper it. If that's true I'd presume that's a good thing from a our point of view? I.e there was some kind of interference that made the PL change its mind. The whole point of the legal stuff now is to get that out in the open, or have I got this wrong?