Margaret Thatcher, who would be 100 today, was the target of many impersonators over the years.
There was Janet Brown's eerily accurate impression. Then there was her supremely unflattering Spitting Image puppet, voiced by Steve Nallon.
But many struggled to mimic Mrs T. Even Mike Yarwood, the most celebrated impressionist of the 1970s, admitted: 'I couldn't get the voice at all.'
So who'd have thought one of the best imitations would come from a drag queen? The Iron Lady herself, it seems.
During the 1975 Tory leadership contest, she asked Jim Prior - who later served as her Northern Ireland minister - who would impersonate her if she won. 'I suppose,' she said, according to the new book Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street by Peter Just, 'they could always bring in Danny La Rue.'
She was right. The grand dame of drag, who stood 7ft tall in heels, perfected her in a bouffant wig.
Gordon's golden gambling debt to UK
Gordon Brown has been back on the BBC, demanding a hike in gambling taxes in the Budget. Ex-Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie reminds us that Brown, as Chancellor, 'didn't mind gambling with all our futures when he ordered selling half our gold reserves for £2.6 billion'.
With gold now at record highs, that would be worth £38 billion today.
'An effing money-losing Labour idiot,' says MacKenzie. 'There's a lot of them about.'
* By his own admission, Tory Party chair Kevin Hollinrake is a better politician than estate agent. Before entering Parliament, he once tried to charm a client by gesturing to a portrait and saying: 'That looks just like Sir Anthony Hopkins.' To which the woman replied: 'That happens to be my great-grandmother.' No sale.
Boo-boo of the week:
Reporting live on the Six O'Clock News about the sexual offence charges facing Tim Westwood, BBC media editor Katie Razzall accidentally referred to the DJ as 'Tim Davie' - BBC director-general. Anchor Sophie Raworth struggled valiantly to keep a straight face, a studio observer reveals. Let's hope Katie's boss wasn't watching.
On his election in 2015, Tory home affairs spokesman Chris Philp said to his wife: 'Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, imagine you'd one day be married to an MP?' 'You have never been in my wildest dreams,' she tartly replied.
One step from disaster
Things nearly went horribly wrong for Hamish Badenoch at the close of the Tory conference.
As his wife Kemi finished her rousing speech, Hamish bounded on stage for a congratulatory kiss – unaware that the laces on his left shoe were untied. We were moments away from a full-blown Norman Wisdom moment with Hamish tripping up and taking his wife with him. Mercifully, disaster was averted.
Despite the success of the Badenoch speech, all is not well at Tory HQ. Dozens of staff were handed redundancy notices on the eve of the conference – some who had been on the payroll for more than 40 years. As consolation, they were offered a £68 conference ticket as part of their payoff. Unsurprisingly, few took up the offer.