List of nicknames of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
This is a list of nicknames of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. Since Sir Robert Walpole, most prime ministers have had a nickname which was in common usage at the time they were in office. Many nicknames can be perceived as disparaging although others are complimentary or affectionate.
List of nicknames
Robert Walpole
Full name: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Earl of Wilmington
Full name: Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Henry Pelham
Full name: Henry Pelham
Duke of Newcastle
Full name: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- Hubble-Bubble[3]
Duke of Devonshire
Full name: William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Earl of Bute
Full name: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
- Jack Boot[4]
George Grenville
Full name: George Grenville
Marquess of Rockingham
Full name: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Earl of Chatham
Full name: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- The Great Commoner,[6] in reference to his continued refusal of a peerage whilst in office, though he later accepted the title Earl of Chatham.
Duke of Grafton
Full name: Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
Lord North
Full name: Frederick North, Lord North
Earl of Shelburne
Full name: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Duke of Portland
William Pitt the Younger
Full name: William Pitt the Younger
Henry Addington
Full name: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
- The Doctor[12]
Baron Grenville
Full name: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
- Bogey[13]
Spencer Perceval
Full name: Spencer Perceval
- Little P[14]
Earl of Liverpool
George Canning
Full name: George Canning
Viscount Goderich
Duke of Wellington
Full name: Duke of Wellington
Earl Grey
Full name: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Viscount Melbourne
Full name: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Robert Peel
Full name: Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet
- Orange Peel,[18] a reference to his views on Ireland.
Earl Russell
Full name: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Earl of Derby
Full name: Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Earl of Aberdeen
Full name: George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
- Lord Haddo, in reference to Aberdeen's title before he assumed his grandfather's title of Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston
Full name: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Benjamin Disraeli
Full name: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
- Dizzy[22]
William Ewart Gladstone
Full name: William Ewart Gladstone
Marquess of Salisbury
Full name:Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
- Bob's your uncle, in reference to Salisbury's appointment of his nephew, Arthur Balfour to the position of Chief Secretary of Ireland. Balfour would later become Prime Minister.
Earl of Rosebery
Full name: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian
- Puddin
Arthur Balfour
Full name: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Full name: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- CB[27]
H. H. Asquith
Full name: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
David Lloyd George
Full name: David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
Bonar Law
Full name: Andrew Bonar Law
- The Unknown Prime Minister[33]
Stanley Baldwin
Full name: Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
- Honest Stan[34]
- Uncle Stanley, from his frequent use of the radio as Prime Minister.
Ramsay MacDonald
Full name: James Ramsay MacDonald
Neville Chamberlain
Full name: Arthur Neville Chamberlain
- The Coroner[37]
Winston Churchill
Full name: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
- Winnie[38]
- (British) Bulldog;[39] first given to him by the Russians,[40] it was a reference to his ferociousness and focus.[41]
- Former Naval Person and Naval Person; this was how Churchill signed many of his telegrams to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, first choosing the code name "Naval Person" and later changing it to "Former Naval Person" after he became Prime Minister.[42]
Clement Attlee
Full name: Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
- Clem[43]
Anthony Eden
Full name: Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon
- The Glamour Boy, in reference to his neat appearance.
Harold Macmillan
Full name: Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton
- Supermac[44]
- Mac the Knife,[44] in reference to the Night of the Long Knives.
Alec Douglas-Home
Full name: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
Harold Wilson
Full name: James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
- Wislon[47]
Edward Heath
Full name: Sir Edward Richard George Heath
- Grocer Heath[48]
James Callaghan
Full name: Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff
Margaret Thatcher
Full name: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts)
- Attila the Hen[51]
- That Bloody Woman or TBW[52]
- The Great She-Elephant,[53][54] an allusion to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
- The Grocer's Daughter,[55] a double meaning in that she was literally the daughter of a grocer, but also the successor to Edward Heath, "The Grocer".
- The Iron Lady[56]
- Madame Frit, derived from her use of the dialect word frit in the House.[57]
- Maggie[58]
- Milk Snatcher, from her policy as Secretary of State for Education to remove the supply of free milk to young schoolchildren.[59]
John Major
Full name: Sir John Roy Major
- Grey Man;[60] Major "had been considered a decent but uninspiring person who was known as the 'grey man' of politics", with his caricature Spitting Image puppet portraying him as such.
- Honest John
- Prince of Greyness, again referencing his apparent dullness and lack of personality.
Tony Blair
Full Name: Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
- Tony Blur, used during his time in opposition to describe his "clear image" but not what he stood for.
- Bambi,[61] Blair had been the youngest prime minister for nearly 200 years.
- Bliar,[61] associated with the Iraq War. Blair was accused of misleading parliament and the country over weapons of mass destruction
- America's Poodle, a reference to his Special Relationship with the President of the United States, George W. Bush.[62]
- Tory Blair, in reference to his centrist New Labour political stance which distanced itself from traditional Labour Party values.
- Teflon Tony[63]
Gordon Brown
Full name: James Gordon Brown
- Flash Gordon[64]
- Big Clunking Fist; first used by Tony Blair during his final Queen's Speech debate,[65] it was later used by columnists throughout the British media.[66][67]
- Bottler Brown, used in relation to Brown not calling an election in 2007 after previously suggesting he would.[72]
- Golden Brown; as Chancellor, Brown sold 60% of the UK’s gold reserves. Used by Terry Wogan and the TOGs, normally followed by Wogan saying "Never a frown with Golden Brown", a reference to the song "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers.[73]
- Gordo[74]
- Great Leader and Stalin, often sarcastically used by Andrew Neil on This Week in relation to Lord Turnbull's description of Brown as a man who operates with "Stalinist ruthlessness".[75][76] The fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye also had a mock Stalinist decree each issue, Prime Ministerial Decree.
- Squatter in No. 10,[77][78][79][80] used as Brown was not elected and after Brown attempted to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats following the 2010 general election.
David Cameron
Full name: David William Donald Cameron
- Dave, Cameron is reported to be known to friends and family as "Dave" rather than David, although he invariably uses the latter name in public.[81]
- Flashman, a reference to fictional upper-class bully Harry Flashman, used by Ed Miliband during a PMQs debate on reform to the NHS.[82][83]
- Call me Dave[84]
- Hameron,[85][86] in reference to the "Piggate" allegations.
- Dodgy Dave,[87][88] a nickname trending on social media with the #DodgyDave hashtag after Labour MP Dennis Skinner was sent out of the House of Commons in April 2016 for referring to Cameron as "Dodgy Dave" and repeating it after being instructed to withdraw it by Speaker John Bercow.[88] This came about during the Panama Papers scandal.[88]
Theresa May
Full name: Theresa Mary May (née Brasier)
See also
Lists portal United Kingdom portal - List of nicknames of Presidents of the United States
- Prime Minister parodies (Private Eye)
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His delicacy of appearance and manners earned him the nickname 'pretty Fanny'.
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And the best case ever to be made for that most notorious philanderer of them all, David Lloyd George (not for nothing known as "the Welsh Goat") has always seemed to me to lie in the fact that his wife, Margaret, was asking for trouble when, from the moment of his election for Caernarvon Boroughs in 1890, she insisted on staying in north Wales and not accompanying her husband to London.
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Churchill responded with alacrity and mild humor, choosing the transparent code name "Naval Person," that he would later change to "Former Naval Person" once he had left the Admiralty and moved to the Prime Minister's Residence at number 10 Downing Street.
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Arising from a mistaken photo caption in a Scottish newspaper, the Eye decided to dub PM Sir Alex Douglas-Home as Baillie Vass.
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I had grown up with the Grocer Heath image from Private Eye, and marched against his industrial relations reforms in the 1970s - although his proposals would have left unions legally stronger than they are today under the EU Social Charter.
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It means actually "That bloody woman!" factor in fact.
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And it is why he will tender his resignation from the office of Prime Minister on 27 June this year rather than at the end of next year, which would have given him a longer stretch at the top than the Great She-Elephant herself.
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A Spitting Image sketch had a waiter asking her what she wanted for dinner. 'Steak,' replied the Great She Elephant. 'And what about the vegetables?' Withering the cabinet, she delivered the punchline: 'They'll have the same.'
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TONY BLAIR no longer commands. Teflon Tony is dead. [...] Yesterday's defeat in the Commons is a serious blow for Labour's credibility as a governing party.
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Some detractors have jokingly compared him to the fantasy film hero - and partial namesake - Flash Gordon, who rescued earth from attack by Martians.
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The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist, and you know what, he will be out on his feet, carried out of the ring
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The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'. That's a soubriquet he is going to hate, not least because it is a label with history.
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The chancellor has a Macavity quality. He is not there when there is dirty work to be done.... You can choose whether you are impressed or depressed by that, but you cannot help admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all.
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