Changes

|religion=[[Anglican]]

|religion=[[Anglican]]

}}

}}

'''Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill''', KG, OM, CH (1874-1965), was an British politician who served as the Conservative [[Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] for most of the [[Second World War]] and again from 1951-55.  

'''Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill''', KG, OM, CH (1874-1965), was a [[British]] politician who served as the Conservative [[Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] for most of the [[Second World War]] and again from 1951-55.  

Churchill was a leader of the Liberal party before it collapsed in the 1920s; then he rejoined the Conservative party. Although he supported the beginning of the welfare state around 1910, he was temperamentally and culturally a [[conservative]], and though in his youth a [[liberal]] socially, soon became a conservative as the liberals ramped up criticism of the empire. He became a leading opponent of [[socialism]] after 1945, as well as an opponent of Gandhi's movement for the independence of India after 1930.<ref>Winston Churchill was reportedly [[racist]] against Indians and Hindus. When Leopold Amery the British secretary of state, told him that rotting corpses lined the streets of Calcutta, Winston Churchill supposedly responded (perhaps intoxicated) by saying, "I hate Indians." "They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." [https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british</ref>  He was one of the few leaders to achieve high office in both World Wars and to write profusely about his experiences.

Churchill was a leader of the Liberal party before it collapsed in the 1920s; then he rejoined the Conservative party. Although he supported the beginning of the welfare state around 1910, he was temperamentally and culturally a [[conservative]], and though in his youth a [[liberal]] socially, soon became a conservative as the liberals ramped up criticism of the empire. He became a leading opponent of [[socialism]] after 1945, as well as an opponent of Gandhi's movement for the independence of India after 1930.<ref>Winston Churchill was reportedly [[racist]] against Indians and Hindus. When Leopold Amery the British secretary of state, told him that rotting corpses lined the streets of Calcutta, Winston Churchill supposedly responded (perhaps intoxicated) by saying, "I hate Indians." "They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." [https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british</ref>  He was one of the few leaders to achieve high office in both World Wars and to write profusely about his experiences.