He's obviously a greedy bastard, but that's hardly unusual in his line of business. Or in most lines of business, for that matter.

A years ago Peter Mandelson (another example of the same tendency, but in the political context) talked about how New Labour was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich". So there's not too much hope from that direction. And the Tories might make a few soundbites about it, but they are aren't going to go after their friends. (How unlike New Labour in that respect...)

It'd be nice to imagine a sea change in which being filthy rich was indeed recognised as being filthy, and not something to be tolerated. We might even see that being how ordinary people start to see it once again. But getting that translated into changes in the way in which things are actually done is something else again, especially given the claustrophobic electoral system we have.