He knows full well that people may not entirely believe him, but this is still where he begins as we sit at a sidewalk café in central Copenhagen. And it is important to underscore it:

»I’m not a candidate for prime minister, but I would like to be the one who negotiates a governing platform for a government across the middle. Not to form a government, but to examine whether a governing platform can be created. That’s why I’m putting myself forward as the royal investigator, if we in Moderaterne hold the decisive votes«, says Lars Løkke Rasmussen (M).