The bumper pay packages of City bosses might have been a hobby horse of union leaders and other voices on the left for many years, but the Government cuts and falling real incomes have pushed them into the political mainstream.
How the bonus culture took off. By Steven Vass, Deputy Business Editor
When once Peter Mandelson was "intensely relaxed" about people earning monstrous incomes, now he has publicly changed his mind. Even Boris Johnson and Bank of England governor Mervyn King have railed against executive pay packets in the past few days.