I can’t imagine that many senior business lawyers read The Guardian, so they may have missed an article on Monday that analysed attitudes towards privilege, the poor and wealth redistribution among a group of partners at an unnamed law firm of “international renown” based at Canary Wharf.

The lawyers – along with a bunch of investment bankers – had agreed to be questioned in sessions conducted by Ipsos MORI to gather research for Unjust Rewards, a book on wealth inequality by Guardian journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker.