List of nicknames of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Full name: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford

• Sir Bluestring[1]
• Screen-Master General[1]

Full name: Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington

Full name: Henry Pelham

• King Henry the Ninth[2]

Full name: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

• Hubble-Bubble[3]

Full name: William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

Full name: John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

• Jack Boot[4]

Full name: George Grenville

• Gentle Shepherd[5]

Full name: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham

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.

Full name: Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton

• Royal Oak[7]
• The Turf Macaroni[7]

Full name: Frederick North, Lord North

• Boreas (the north wind)[8]
• Lord-deputy North[8]

Full name: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

• Malagrida[9]
• The Jesuit in Berkerly Square[9]

Full name: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

Full name: William Pitt the Younger

• Pitt the Younger,[10] to distinguish him from his father, Pitt the Elder.
• Three-bottle man, in reference to his heavy consumption of port wine.[11]

Full name: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

• The Doctor[12]

Full name: William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

• Bogey[13]

Full name: Spencer Perceval

• Little P[14]

Full name: Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Full name: George Canning

• The Cicero of the British Senate[15]
• The Zany of Debate[15]

Full name: Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

• Prosperity Robinson[16]
• Goody Goderich[16]
• The Blubberer[16]

Full name: Duke of Wellington

• The Iron Duke[17]
• Europe's Liberator[17]
• Saviour of the Nations[17]

Full name: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Full name: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Full name: Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet

• Orange Peel,[18] a reference to his views on Ireland.

Full name: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

• Finality Jack[19]
• The Widow's Mite[19]

Full name: Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

• Scorpion Stanley[20]
• The Rupert of Debate[20]

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.

Full name: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

• Lord Cupid[21]
• Lord Pumicestone[21]

Full name: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

• Dizzy[22]

Full name: William Ewart Gladstone

• Grand Old Man[23]
• The People's William
• God's Only Mistake, used by Disraeli as a mocking alternative to Gladstone's preferred nickname (Grand Old Man).[23]
• Murderer of Gordon, a scathing inversion of Gladstone's preferred nickname (Grand Old Man) following the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Gladstone had delayed sending Gordon military reinforcements, so was blamed for Gordon's subsequent defeat and execution by the Mahdists of the Sudan.[24]

Full name:Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Full name: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian

• Puddin

Full name: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

• Pretty Fanny, a reference to his delicacy of appearance and manners.[25]
• Bloody Balfour[26]
• Tiger Lily[27]
• Miss Balfour

Full name: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

• CB[28]

Full name: Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

• The Last of the Romans[29]
• The Sledgehammer[30]
• Squiffy[31]

Full name: David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor

• The Welsh Wizard[32]
• The Man Who Won The War[32]
• The Welsh Goat[33]

Full name: Andrew Bonar Law

• The Unknown Prime Minister[34]

Full name: Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

• Honest Stan[35]
• Uncle Stanley, from his frequent use of the radio as Prime Minister.

Full name: James Ramsay MacDonald

• Ramsay Mac[36]
• Ramshackle Mac[37]

Full name: Arthur Neville Chamberlain

• The Coroner[38]

Full name: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

• Winnie[39]
• (British) Bulldog;[40] first given to him by the Russians,[41] it was a reference to his ferociousness and focus.[42]
• 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.[43]

Full name: Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee

• Clem[44]
• A sheep in sheep's clothing [45]

Full name: Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon

• The Glamour Boy, in reference to his neat appearance.

Full name: Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton

• Supermac,[46] originally coined by Victor Weisz as the title of an editorial cartoon published in the Evening Standard.
• Mac the Knife,[46] in reference to the Night of the Long Knives.

Full name: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel

• Baillie Vass[47][48]

Full name: James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx

• Wislon[49]

Full name: Sir Edward Richard George Heath

• Grocer Heath[50]

Full name: Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff

• Big Jim[51]
• Sunny Jim,[51] a homonym of "Sonny Jim", used to patronise an inexperienced person,[52] and to refer to his optimism. Particularly used in the media during the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79, when Callaghan appeared out of touch with the problems people were facing at the time.

Full name: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts)

• Attila the Hen[53]
• That Bloody Woman or TBW[54]
• That Great Charmer,[55] an anagram of Margaret Thatcher.
• The Great She-Elephant,[56][57] an allusion to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
• The Grocer's Daughter,[58] 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[59] (See Margaret Thatcher § "The 'Iron Lady' Sounds the Alarm".)
• Madame Frit, derived from her use of the dialect word frit in the House.[60]
• Maggie[61]
• Maggie the Great[62]
• Milk Snatcher, from her policy as Secretary of State for Education to remove the supply of free milk to young schoolchildren.[63]
• Mrs Finchley[64]
• Thatch, In the 1980s Ben Elton started a trend for referring to Mrs Thatcher as Thatch, a colloquialism for pubic hair.[65]

Full name: Sir John Roy Major

• Grey Man;[66] 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's Special Relationship with the President of the United States, George W. Bush, gained him the nickname "America's Poodle".

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,[67] Blair had been the youngest prime minister for nearly 200 years.
• Bliar,[67] 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.[68]
• Teflon Tony[69]

Full name: James Gordon Brown

• Flash Gordon,[70] in reference to the comic strip hero Flash Gordon.
• Big Clunking Fist, first used by Tony Blair during his final Queen's Speech debate,[71] it was later used by columnists throughout the British media.[72][73]
  • Great Clunking Fist, a common misquote.[74][75][76]
• Bottler Brown, used in relation to Brown not calling an election in 2007 after previously suggesting he would.[77]
• 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.[78]
• Gordo.[79] The word means 'fat' in Spanish.
• 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".[80][81] The fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye also had a mock Stalinist decree each issue, Prime Ministerial Decree.
• Squatter in No. 10,[82][83] used as Brown was not elected and after Brown attempted to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats following the 2010 general election.

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.[84]
• DVD Dave, Mr Cameron was reportedly known as DVD Dave because of his love of DVD Box Sets which he enjoyed with his wife Samantha.[85]
• Flashman, a reference to fictional upper-class bully Harry Flashman, used by Ed Miliband during a PMQs debate on reform to the NHS.[86]
• Call me Dave,[87] used since the publishing of his 2015 biography Call Me Dave.
• Hameron,[88] in reference to the "Piggate" allegations.
• Dodgy Dave,[89][90] 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.[90] This came about during the Panama Papers scandal.[90]

Full name: Theresa Mary May (née Brasier)

• Mummy/Mummy May,[91][92] affectionately used by Conservative activists to make reference to her matriarchal powers.
• Bloody Difficult Woman,[93][94][95] originally used by Kenneth Clarke to describe May while preparing for an interview with Sky News, not realising he was being recorded.
• Submarine May,[96] originally used by Downing Street aides to describe May hiding away "like a submarine" during the EU referendum campaign.
• Theresa Maybe,[97] used to describe her apparent indecisiveness and vagueness, such as her use of the phrase 'Brexit means Brexit'.[98]
• Theresa the Appeaser,[99][100] originally used to describe her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, particularly after Trump's signing of Executive Order 13769 known as the 'travel ban'. It has also been used since to describe her relationships with other world leaders.
• Maybot,[101][102] used to describe her 'robotic' nature, particularly during the 2017 general election campaign, from which she gained notoriety for frequently repeating campaign slogans such as "strong and stable leadership".[103]
• Teflon Theresa,[104] used to describe her ability to avoid scandals whilst in the politically sensitive position of Home Secretary.
• Lino,[105][106] short for "Leader in name only", used during the Brexit process in reference to May's difficulty in passing her negotiated withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons and her perceived lack of authority as Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party.

Full name: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

• Al, used by his friends and family as a shortening of his legal first name.[107]
• Boris, Johnson has been described as one of the few politicians to be more commonly referred to by his given name than his last name.[108]
• BoJo, often used by the press internationally.[109][110]
• BoJo the Clown, a pun on Bozo the Clown, a more pejorative form of the nickname "BoJo".[111]
• Bozza, an affectionate name used by his friends.[112]
• Beano Boris or Boris the Menace, coined by the satirical magazine Private Eye which depicted Johnson as a blond-haired version of Dennis the Menace from The Beano.[113]
• Bonking Boris, a reference to Johnson's reputation for infidelity.[114]
• British Trump or ”Britain Trump”, used to refer to his perceived similarities with US President Donald Trump.[115]
• Buffoon Boris, a pejorative reference to Johnson's supposed ability to provide amusement through inappropriate appearance or behaviour.[116]
• The Blonde Bombshell, a reference to Johnson's hair colour.[117]