Although I arrive at London’s Athenaeum Hotel five minutes early, Eliot Spitzer is already waiting at a table by the bar.

The former scourge of Wall Street hasn’t changed much – at least outwardly – in the year and a half since a sex scandal forced his resignation as New York governor. Tall with an outsized head and jutting chin beloved of caricaturists, he still wears the standard politician’s uniform – blue suit, red tie and white shirt, a combination that works well on television.