Jonny is voted Saint of the Year
Ed Harris|Evening Standard
13 April 2012
England rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson has been voted the personality most deserving of canonisation.
Wilkinson was voted Saint of the Year in a national poll to find the nation's favourite people of this year (and its villains: Saddam Hussein took the Sinner of the Year title).
The Queen was voted British Statesman of the Year, beating Tony Blair into second place. Mr Blair can take comfort from the fact that Gordon Brown was way behind in third place.
The rugby player and the Queen were the only people to top more than one of the 12 categories in the YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph. The Queen was also named Most Impressive Royal of the Year. Wilkinson was judged to have the best haircut.