“I’ve got all the prime ministers of my lifetime through to Keir Starmer now; I’ve got a contact in Downing Street. When the prime minister changes, I send a photograph in. They know who I am.” He hangs these photos on the wall along his stairs. He’s also got autographs from all the American presidents since Richard Nixon. “Donald Trump was really hard to get. I wrote to him saying how big the collection was and they made an exception.”