Support in London’s financial sector for UK membership of the EU is “shallow” and leading bankers say privately that they do not expect Brexit would do any damage to London’s position as the world’s top financial centre, Boris Johnson has claimed.

Lloyds Banking Group has fired eight members of staff and withheld bonuses worth £3m (€3.83m) as part of disciplinary action taken in the wake of July’s revelations about rate-fixing.

British eurosceptic millionaire Stuart Wheeler clearly failed to establish that the British government promised a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, two senior High Court judges ruled today.