If a week is a long time in politics, then it’s certainly enough time for The Diary to make some laboured, tenuous parallel with the world of commercial law. Indeed, a lot can happen in just 24 hours in the Square Mile.

One City partner to switch firms last month was on the blower to a Diary spy just one day before his move was sensationally revealed by this very organ – happily insisting that he knew nothing about his rumoured move.