In a county outside London where the average house price is almost $1 million, City bankers are plotting against Brexit
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"Raab is my MP, but I can't vote for him," an executive at a large US investment bank told Business Insider. Last month, the fund manager said he attended a meeting with economists and strategists at a big investment bank in London. It was supposed to be a roundtable discussion about the global trade war. The subject instead swerved to the fund manager's trip to attend the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth."They started cheering around the conference room," the fund manager said of the reaction to his Bournemouth trip. "It was supposed to be a lunch with China expert.
Esher and Walton area is part of a ring of towns and villages around London known as the stockbroker belt, due to the large number of City workers who commute into the capital from there. Harding said the sentiment behind the "huge groundswell" of support for her can be summed up more simply: "They don't want to lose money, and they don't want to lose their jobs."
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