It was evidently all too much for one attendee as politicians, pundits and bankers clashed at a highly charged London debate last night over what needs to be done to restore trust in the battered City banking sector.

Exhausted by the panellists' rhetoric as they debated whether banks or the UK Government should be taking the lead in repairing crucial confidence in the City, one attendee, perhaps also fatigued by the rigours of the day, nodded off after jotting down just one, rather poignant word on the event - excess.