What I did was I asked this former chief of staff to my wife.... I didn't feel comfortable taking a diplomatic passport because I knew I would have personal travel. Who wouldn't on a passport that you're issued? So I told her that I was going to try to go through the process to get a normal passport because I didn't want to have any confusion. She insisted to me at the time—and I challenged her on this, and we talked about it a couple of times—she said, “No, you are going to be issued this passport, the same passport, a diplomatic passport, as your wife because you're a spouse.” She informed me that you could travel on it for your own personal use. This is what she told me. I was suspect, except that when I was an MP, I only had one passport and I only travelled on one passport. So even though I challenged her with it, she said, “No, you're only going to be able to use this passport.” In fact, she arranged for my own personal travel...at one point, she arranged a visa.
So you trust your advisers in the role they have. They're the ones to check these things, and in her case it was the chief of staff. When she gave me this advice, I trusted it. I didn't feel comfortable with it, but I trusted it.