“You’ll be able to spot me; I’ll be dressed differently from everyone else,” said Steve Edge when we arranged to meet in London’s Arts Club. He was right – he was the only one wearing an immaculately tailored three-piece suit in brown Prince of Wales check with a red velvet collar and a striped shirt with double cuffs that flopped, unfolded and unlinked, from beneath his sleeves.

Edge says he always dresses flamboyantly, whether he is working, fly-fishing or relaxing at his log cabin in Box Hill, Surrey, with his wife Sylvie and their five children.