Against Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen fought tooth and nail intensely all year and clinched it in that controversial finale in Abu Dhabi when the race director rode roughshod through the rule book.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK would not sit “idly by whilst Putin and his mafia state ride roughshod over international law, including the Chemical Weapons Convention”.

To his opponents, he was an authoritarian strongman who rode roughshod over the country's democratic institutions to preserve his hold on power.

Labour has been accused of "riding roughshod" over its local members after accusations it has "parachuted" its choice of candidate into a Welsh constituency.

America’s founders were appropriately deferential to this foundational principle, but they were also sorely concerned about majority tyranny riding roughshod over minority well-being.