When John Major was prime minister in the 1990s, the actor Jonny Lee Miller was best known for playing the peroxide-haired Sick Boy in Trainspotting and for his tabloid-friendly marriage to Angelina Jolie.
Almost three decades later, the first image has been released of Miller portraying the former Tory prime minister – nicknamed “the grey man” – in the new series of The Crown, complete with side-parting and large glasses.