New Statesman - descriptions of the famous

David Cameron
. . . looks like the kind of man who applies Brylcreem to his teeth and toothpaste to his hair.

John Prescott
. . . went through life looking both surprised and angry to find himself standing under the right head of hair.

Leon Brittan
. . . even in a good mood, wore an expression that said: "I am not going to waste a perfectly good sneer on you."

Peter Mandelson
. . . looks as if his hair has been forbidden to grow beyond a certain length.

David Miliband
. . . looks like the sort who should be wearing a trilby.

Gordon Brown
. . . is the kind of person who would reverse the charges dialling 999.

Nelson Mandela
. . . is an old South African guy who has spent half his life in jail and the other half attending rock concerts and getting kissed by Spice Girls.

Simon Cowell
. . . is a man with his ear perpetually to the grindstone.

Peter Mandelson
. . . has the aura of a man for whom the self-opening door might have been invented.

Iain Duncan Smith
. . . speaks with the voice of someone who has mistaken battery acid for mouthwash.