Norway Prime Minister spends an afternoon undercover as taxi driver

Norway, Aug 12: In a Bizzare incident, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg revealed on Sunday that he has gone undercover as a taxi driver for an afternoon in a bid to find out voters' real concerns.

"It's important for me to hear what people really think. If there's one place where people say what they think, it's in the taxi," he said in a video posted on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Stoltenberg wore an Oslo Taxi uniform - complete with a badge - one afternoon in June and picked up passengers in a black Mercedes in the Norwegian capital.

AFP reported that a hidden camera fitted in the cab recorded reactions from the passengers, including one who remarked: "From this angle, he really looks like the prime minister."

An elderly woman who also recognised Stoltenberg urged him to do something about "the salaries of bosses", complaining that "they should not make millions like that".

Beyond revelations from the clients, Stoltenberg himself had one to give away, admitting to a passenger who recognised him that he had not driven in eight years.

Asked by tabloid Verdens Gang if he would like to be a taxi driver if he lost the elections, Stoltenberg said, "I think that the country and Norwegian taxi passengers are better served if I were a prime minister and not a taxi driver."

The passengers did not have to pay for their journeys as the president "took them for a ride".

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