He had easy access to power and he admits that, at first, he was slightly starstruck, given that his two admitted passions, which he said he shared with M, are business and politics: "I used to play a game where I would get my PA to see who I could get. So I would say 'get me the foreign secretary' and then Robin Cook would come on the line and then 'get me the PM' and after a couple of hours ... I once said 'get me the Pope', but I didn't [get a call back]. You could get almost anybody. It was incredible really."
Posted by Joe at June 14, 2004 11:01 PM