It’s Theresa Clay! Tussauds reveals its head of PM
CREATING a waxwork statue of Prime Minister Theresa May requires strong and stable hands.
Madame Tussauds in London released this picture yesterday revealing the first stages of a process that will take a team of sculptors four months and 170 hours to finish.
The work on creating the clay figure started after June’s general election and the finished statue will be unveiled later this year.
It will be placed outside the Downing Street set at the attraction alongside political powerhouses like US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mrs May’s outfit and shoe selection remains a secret but Madame Tussauds said the choice would be an exact replica of one of her “expansive and headline grabbing collection”. General manager Edward Fuller said: “While the Prime Minister’s Brexit strategy may be unclear, we can be sure her completed figure will bear a striking resemblance to the woman herself.”
David Cameron’s £150,000 waxwork went into storage last August following his humiliating exit from Downing Street after the EU referendum. It leaves Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as the only current British politician on display at the London attraction.
Madame Tussauds held off creating a figure of Mrs May because it had never created a waxwork of an unelected prime minister in its history. Second World War appeaser Neville Chamberlain was denied a place for that reason.