Sleeping over the issue after his outburst in animpromptu press-conference has also apparently not calmed him down, for NatwarSingh, when confronted by Karan Thapar in an interview for CNN-IBN went on tosay, "It gives me no pleasure to say that he (Manmohan Singh) is a weak PM,unable to stand by his colleagues. He has no backbone. ... I have worked withhim for 40 years... he is indecisive ... he knew nothing of foreign affairs...and I helped him ... and now when I am indifficulty he does not have the courage or camaraderie to say something in myfavour."