Boris Johnson is even more popular than Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.
That is if you judge Prime Ministers on sales of Toby Jugs, peculiar £35 collectables immortalising some of those to have resided in No10 Downing Street over the past three centuries.
MailOnline can reveal that, since 2018, the Houses of Parliament Gift Shop has sold 389 jugs decorated to resemble Mr Johnson, a Mail columnist.
For context, that is more than the combined total for Theresa May (116), Rishi Sunak (74) and Liz Truss (109).
Sir Keir Starmer, who has yet to serve 100 days in Downing Street, is still waiting for his handpainted, hand-sculpted glazed pottery piece to go on sale.
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister, has two styles of handmade Toby Jug.
One is of her in blue but was withdrawn for sale earlier this year. The other features her famous handbag.
Following her death in 2013, Mrs T’s former education secretary Kenneth Baker told the BBC: ‘When Maggie was really up against it, she would put her handbag on the cabinet table and take out a well-crumpled paper.
‘This was the brief that came from no-one knew whom – a friend, or someone who had rung her up. It was unpredictable, sometimes illuminating, at others weird, sometimes an interesting new light, at others a worthless piece of gossip.
‘Whenever this happened, the cabinet secretary would pale, and the minister would raise his eyes to the ceiling. Many are the ministers who have cursed the contents of that wretched blue handbag.’
Margaret Thatcher, pictured at Downing Street, was renowned for ‘handbagging’ opponents
Sir Keir Starmer is still awaiting his immortalisation as a glazed ceramic Toby jug
Between 2018 and 2024, MailOnline’s freedom of information request revealed she has sold a total 233 Toby Jugs either online or in-person.
Mrs Thatcher is not as popular as Sir Winston, however.
Some 312 jugs resembling Britain’s heroic wartime PM were sold over the same six-year period, out of a total of 2,217.
David Cameron sold 78 ceramic Toby Jugs, less than John Major (92), who replaced Mrs Thatcher.
Of those Downing Street alumni who have recorded sales, Andrew Bonar Law is the least popular.
The Canadian-born Tory served under David Llloyd George during the First World War but became PM in 1922, serving for 209 days before being forced to resign due to ill-health.
He has a total of 24 sales, followed by Stanley Baldwin on 27, Baldwin replaced Bonar Law and served as PM between 1923-24, 1924-29 and finally from 1935 to 1937.
Even Anthony Eden who was forced from power following the Suez Canal disaster attracted 47 sales.
For Labour PMs, Tony Blair proved the most popular, selling 143 – well ahead of his replacement Gordon Brown (73).
Details of sales pre-2018 were erased as part of the Houses of Parliament Gift Shop data retention policy.
Sir Robert Walpole was the first ‘modern’ PM to take up residence on September 22, 1735.
He remained in office for 20 years and 314 days. Some 57 people – including three women – have served in the role since.
