“I’ve got my strengths and I’ve got my weaknesses. I make big decisions and I’m not afraid of breaking new ground. I’m actually shy by nature rather than extrovert, someone who feels that your actions should speak for themselves, but that’s not the way politics works these days. I’ve been honest about it. I really dislike the trivialisation of politics.”

A sports pundit asks, of the twenty year old motor racing champion who dates an international model and pop star upon his early departure from a racing session around Monaco which he has to watch the rest of from a gold plated two floored yacht -

“You must be bitterly disappointed with your situation today?”