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Chris Campbell - a tax specialist at Icas, the institute of chartered accountants in Scotland - says its members have been busy this month with approaches for advice.

Mrs Brown said she graduated in July from the University of Bedfordshire in accounting and finance and hoped to become a fully chartered accountant.

Some 600 alumni are already working as software engineers, chartered accountants and in other professions.

This, says Alex King, founder and chartered accountant at finance platform Generation Money, means that junior accountants working in audit will need to focus more on client-facing skills.

Sir Keir's latest "summary" of his UK taxable income, capital gains and tax paid over the last tax year as reported to HM Revenue & Customs, was prepared by his chartered accountants.