A photographer had put out a call for a Gordon Brown lookalike, which she said was urgently needed.

The artist was 37-year old Alison Jackson, who has been known to take and publish photographs of mirror images of such figures as Princess Diana, David Beckam, George Bush, and the Queen herself. The notoriety of her photographs stems from the fact that the photos she takes are of the lookalikes in compromising positions.

Jackson was said to have been looking for a Gordon Brown lookalike for six years, yielding no results whatsoever, reported The Press Association. She described the search for a Gordon Brown lookalike as being more difficult than any other search in the past.

The call was published in an issue of the British magazine Amateur Photographer.

After the magazine asked Jackson how her search was doing, she responded, "I've had lots of responses from Russia."

A campaign for the search was also started on Jackson's website.