Daily Mail, 25 February 2020, Now Business Secretary is dragged into Sirius row amid fears ordinary shareholders will be shut out of vote

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8044485/Now-Business-Secretary-Alok-Sharma-dragged-Sirius-row.html

The Daily Mail reported that:

In a letter to Sharma, Cliff Weight, director of investor lobby group Sharesoc, said: ‘The events at Sirius Minerals highlight how complicated the system to vote shares is and the need to make it easier.

‘Low rates of voting by individual investors will mean that opportunists can overly influence takeover outcomes.’