Winston Churchill was born on November 30th 1874 in Oxfordshire, England and died on the 24th of January 1965 at the age of 90. Churchill went to Harrow School and arrived in the Boer War won fame for rescuing an armoured train ambushed by Boers, but was taken prisoner. However, a month later he made a improbable prison escape. Using this short fame, he used this as a springboard for his political career and re-ran again as candidate for the seat of Oldham and won. After defecting from the Conservatives to the Liberals and having lost his seat at Oldham, he became president of the Board of Trade as MP for Dundee. The following year he married Clementine Hozier, who would later serve as an inspiration for Churchill even through the toughest of times. At the board of trade, Churchill implemented an eight-hour maximum day for miners but some views were seen as extreme and was attacked by a militant suffragette w with a dog-whip and was nearly killed.

Churchill was not surprised when war broke out in September 1914, but took immediate action by mobilising the naval for complete readiness when war was declared. Churchill organised the defence of Antwerp, a Belgium city, and helped the Belgium army escape and saved crucial channel ports. Churchill’s plan for an attack along the Dardanelles Strait took place between February 1915 and January 1916 and the British Empire and its soldiers lost 300,000 soldiers during the whole expedition and many were taken prisoner. In November 1915, Churchill resigned from government and went to France to fight; a commission carried out found that Churchill was at least no more to blame for the fiasco than his colleagues. Churchill stood for election in autumn 1922, but suddenly suffered appendicitis so became unable to appear in public until 2 days before the election. He lost by 10,000 votes and said that he was “without an office, without a seat, without a party and even without an appendix”. Now out of office, Churchill turned to painting but continued writing to provide him with money. His book “The World Crisis” profited him £20,000 giving him Chartwell, his country home in Kent. He returned to politics the following year but as a Liberal free-trader who was anti-socialist but lost by 4,000 votes. He tried again in a by-election, this time as an independent but lost by 43 votes. Churchill won support in the Conservative Party and restood as a Conservative candidate in Epping and became Chancellor of the Exchequer until the government fell in 1929. Churchill hated Baldwin’s decision , the Conservative leader, decision to give India dominion status so resigned from shadow cabinet and stated a passionate campaign against Baldwin’s idea.

From 1929 to 1939, Churchill was excluded from office. He was virtually distrusted by every party and they all thought he lacked judgement. Churchill was excluded again in 1939, and held a small, insignificant position. Churchill opposed the Prime Minister during Edward VIII’s abdication crisis of 1936 by supporting the King, but became even more unpopular in the process. Churchill stood opposed to the policy of appeasement including the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia by France and Britain and said that the deal was a “total and unmitigated defeat”. Churchill led ideas for a national coalition and following Chamberlain’s resignation became Prime Minister, backed entirely by the people. He persevered and roused the British to support the war against Hitler and when Britain triumphed, was promptly ejected from office in a landslide. However, after the election of 1951, Churchill returned to lead the country as Prime Minister once again with a narrow majority of 17 seats. He retired from Prime Minister on the 5th of April 1955 and continued as MP until 1963 before stepping down. He died of a heart attack in January 1965.

His story was remarkable because he saved Britain through unification to defeat a common cause and fought for a great Britain. He was patriotic and saved our country from evil.