Professional and financial services are one of the UK’s largest business sectors. In every city across the country they employ thousands of people, while the capital continues to thrive as the financial centre of Europe.

But there is a big blot on the landscape threatening jobs and growth: the possibility of a hard, ‘no-deal’ Brexit which is already creating huge challenges for our world-leading financial and professional services and which could, if it comes to pass, dent our global competitiveness.