I am much disturbed by the vilification of members of parliament who speak up for wealth management and finance as a whole, with jobs outside the Commons.

Regrettably, private banking has few representatives in parliament in order to act as a strong voice for our jolly old wealth business.

We thus badly need MPs to support our industry, which is ever vulnerable to accusations that its main job is to aid and abet the rich in avoiding tax and shifting assets to dodgy offshore ...