INTERVIEW When Malaysiakini walked into his office for an interview on Tuesday, Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim was munching kuih bangkit, leaving crumbs all over the front of his shirt.

Having skipped lunch for back-to-back interviews, Khalid sat in front of media cameras, his hair uncombed, the pant on one leg awkwardly hitched too high and shirt buttons straining around the gut.

Having made the money in his previous life as a corporate bigwig, Khalid is not short of funds to make the appropriate fashion statement...