Politicians love being immortalised on canvas and it appears the previous UK Prime Minister, Theresa Might, is not any exception. A hanging picture of the reasonably austere politician pinged popped into our e mail field, dividing opinion with its El Greco-esque overtones. Painted by the Tehran-born artist Saied Dai, the £28,000 portrait of the MP for Maidenhead will finally cling in Portcullis Home, a key constructing on the Parliamentary Property in London. “Kudos should go to the artist… who has seemingly finished the unimaginable and imbued the previous prime minister—whose best admirers couldn’t accuse her of getting an inspirational management model—with an air that seems virtually noble,” wrote Emma Brockes in The Guardian, who requested additionally if we are able to actually neglect the anti-immigrant “go residence” vans and Brexit shenanigans overseen by Might. The response on social media was decidedly blended with one contributor on X/Twitter questioning if an AI programme had acquired the next instruction: “Create a portray of Theresa Might as a defeated French common, returning residence after the Battle of Waterloo.” Speaking of former PMs, we simply can’t wait to see Liz Truss’s leaving portrait.
