Winston Churchill is one of Britain’s enduring symbols. His relentless drive, deep conviction and steadfast leadership means that he remains admired by millions around the globe. Yet for years, the political mainstream has been compelled to defend his memory from spurious attacks from the left, such as John McDonnell calling him a ‘villain’. Depressingly that threat – and the same pernicious desire to denigrate our nation’s greatest hero – can now be found on the right.

The aim is not simply to manipulate the public’s view of Churchill, but through his denigration to create the intellectual space for their other pernicious ideas to flourish

Spawned from a sinister fringe of the American ultra-MAGA movement, these views have been propagated to millions. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News

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