She rose to fame in later life for publicly signing a petition against her own son’s government, before seeing her name invoked in the House of Commons in an insult to Jeremy Corbyn.

Today, David Cameron’s mother Mary was acclaimed in her own right, as she was awarded an Oldie Magazine prize for “knowing best”.

Mrs Cameron famously signed a public petition opposing cuts to children's centres across Oxfordshire under a Conservative-run council, causing no little embarassment to the then-Prime Minister.

Mr Cameron then invoked her spirit during Prime Minister’s Question Time in which he told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: “I know what my mother would say.