Councillor George Finch seems to have been rearranging the furniture in his new office by himself. 'I thought this worked better,' he says, explaining the new placement of desk, chairs and boardroom table.
President Trump might have brought in interior designers when he moved back into the Oval Office, but there is nothing blingtastic about the Warwickshire equivalent.
Nor is the new leader of Warwickshire County Council about to blow the budget on gilded adornments for the walls or turn Shire Hall into a skateboard park, which must have been a fear.
There are plans for a Union flag to be given prime position in this room, but it sounds like it will be propped against the wall rather than attached to it.
'I can't put anything else on the walls because this is a listed building so there are all sorts of rules,' he explains, with a slight roll of the eye. 'You can't even put a pin up.'
