She said a "spectacular" spot had been picked out for the eight-foot high marblestatue in the city hall and its citizens would have no trouble recalling the former Tory leader because they were largely of retirement age.
Dominating the north gallery as the Mozia Charioteer dominates the south is a life-size limestone marblestatue of the woodland diety Priapos, as powerfully hulking and oversexed as the Charioteer is suave and teasingly erotic.
In February, Grantham Museum manager Jayne Robb was suspended for "erroneously" claiming the museum been offered a white marblestatue of Margaret Thatcher, which was unveiled by the former prime minister in 2002.
In the marble-lined lobby, a magnificent 19th-century statue of the then Duke of Norfolk in garter robes suggests that Sheffield's taste for expensive monuments has a long history.