Ideologies / Conservative / Winston Churchill
§ The minds · 1874–1965 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
The wartime lion
Imperial tradition and parliamentary resolve against tyranny.
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Governance+32
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Britain's defiant war leader, whose oratory and obstinacy held the line in 1940 and whose conservatism was rooted in history, nation and parliamentary tradition.
social
Romantic traditionalist, steeped in history, monarchy and the imperial idea.
economic
A free-trade liberal turned Tory; defended markets, empire and the existing order.
governance
Reverent toward Crown, Parliament and nation; a strong executive in crisis.
Notable for
- Led Britain through the Second World War
- Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953
- Defined Cold-War rhetoric ('iron curtain')
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