Parking tickets for playboys’ cars aside, Britain remains a relatively friendly place for the super wealthy

“We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes,” the New Labour business secretary Peter Mandelson once said.

For all the modern rhetoric of smouldering public resentment against the super-rich, a German study suggests that a clear majority of Britons still share Lord Mandelson’s sentiment.

A detailed survey of attitudes towards the wealthy in different countries shows that Britain is a considerably friendlier place for millionaires than its neighbours, and more easygoing than even the US. British millennials appear more kindly disposed towards the rich than any other age group, with older generations more sceptical.

Rainer Zitelmann, an economic historian in Berlin, commissioned the poll of 4,000 people in Britain, the US, France and Germany. Overall, Britons displayed