So when we demand control - or more often a veto - over new financial regulation because the City is the biggest financial centre, there’s only one response. “They say forget it,” she says. “'We’re not going to take it from you - you’ve ruined our economy, you’re the reason we’ve got all this austerity and you think you can march around saying you know it best?’ That’s what we’re up against the whole time in Brussels. In financial services, at least.”