How rich do you have to be to own a second home in Mayfair? Perhaps you have to be the sort of person who doesn’t baulk at spending £20,000 on a set of Lalique bathroom taps, says actress and presenter Sally Lindsay. Sally is not that person.

‘£10K on each tap!’ she shrieks. ‘Who needs to spend that on taps? I thought, “We’re in another world here.”

‘We’re reading about children getting carrots in boxes as a free school lunch, and there are people spending this much on taps.’