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However, he became better known for storming out of a television interview, when broadcaster Sir Robin Day pressing him on defence spending cuts referred to him as a "here today, gone tomorrow politician".

He retained a sense of humour about the incident, later entitling his memoir 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow'.

“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”

That raises a lot of concerns, mostly around how volatile crypto can be; “here today, gone tomorrow” is an experience most crypto investors have seen in their crypto wallets, even if they have achieved long-term success.

“I was like, wait a minute — there isn’t a line in the sand that’s like, it’s here today, gone tomorrow.”