If your car breaks down, with luck the Queen’s motorcade will just happen to be passing – so she can repair it? That’s because according to a new poll, Queen Elizabeth II is the most trusted public figure to fix a car. More than 2000 consumers were questioned on behalf of the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) scheme. People thought the Queen would be more likely than David Cameron to be able to undertake basic car repairs, beating the Tory leader 16% to 13%. Gordon Brown, meanwhile, languished at only 9% – beaten by even Simon Cowell, who received 11% of the vote. “We had to laugh” admitted Nigel Beaven, the spokesperson for the ATA scheme. “People may know that during the Second World War, the Queen trained to become a fully qualified mechanic. More



