Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman,military officer,and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924,he was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism,he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party,which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
Stanley Baldwin,1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley was a British statesman and Conservative politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars. He was prime minister on three occasions,from May 1923 to January 1924,from November 1924 to June 1929,and from June 1935 to May 1937.
The 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days,from 4 to 12 May 1926. It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for 1.2 million locked-out coal miners. Some 1.7 million workers went out,especially in transport and heavy industry.
Douglas McGarel Hogg,1st Viscount Hailsham,was a British lawyer and Conservative politician who twice served as Lord Chancellor,in addition to a number of other Cabinet positions. Mooted as a possible successor to Stanley Baldwin as party leader for a time in the very early 1930s,he was widely considered to be one of the leading Conservative politicians of his generation.
John Allsebrook Simon,1st Viscount Simon,was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of three people to have served as Home Secretary,Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer,the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan.
Reginald McKenna was a British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was as President of the Board of Education,after which he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. His most important roles were as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the premiership of H. H. Asquith. He was studious and meticulous,noted for his attention to detail,but also for being bureaucratic and partisan.
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was a British Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister,he qualified as a solicitor,and successfully specialised in industrial insurance. He became a member of the London County Council and then a Member of Parliament.
In the United Kingdom,the word liberalism can have any of several meanings. Scholars primarily use the term to refer to classical liberalism.The term can also mean economic liberalism,social liberalism or political liberalism. It can simply refer to the ideology and practises of the historic Liberal Party (1859–1988),or in the modern context,of the Liberal Democrats,a UK party formed after the original Liberal Party's demise.
In the politics of the United Kingdom,a National Government is a coalition of some or all of the major political parties. In a historical sense,it refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald,Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931 until 1940.
The Churchill war ministry was the United Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill,who was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in the aftermath of the Norway Debate.
The Churchill caretaker ministry was a short-term British government in the latter stages of the Second World War,from 23 May to 26 July 1945. The prime minister was Winston Churchill,leader of the Conservative Party. This government succeeded the national coalition which he had formed after he was first appointed prime minister on 10 May 1940. The coalition had comprised leading members of the Conservative,Labour and Liberal parties and it was terminated soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany because the parties could not agree on whether it should continue until after the defeat of Japan.
The Liberal government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1905 and ended in 1915 consisted of two ministries:the first led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman and the final three by H. H. Asquith.
This article documents the career of Winston Churchill in Parliament from its beginning in 1900 to the start of his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in World War II.
Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the July 1945 general election,forcing him to step down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For six years he served as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years he continued to influence world affairs. In 1946 he gave his "Iron Curtain" speech which spoke of the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Eastern Bloc;Churchill also argued strongly for British independence from the European Coal and Steel Community;he saw this as a Franco-German project and Britain still had an empire. In the General Election of 1951,Labour was defeated.
The early life,business career and political rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated on 28 May 1937,when he was summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands" and accept the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Chamberlain had long been regarded as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's political heir,and when Baldwin announced his retirement,Chamberlain was seen as the only possible successor.
The early life of Winston Churchill covers the period from his birth on 30 November 1874 to 31 May 1904 when he formally crossed the floor of the House of Commons,defecting from the Conservative Party to sit as a member of the Liberal Party.
Winston Churchill was first elected to the UK Parliament at the 1900 general election as one of two Conservative Party members representing the Oldham constituency. He took his seat in the House of Commons in February 1901 but soon became critical of the Conservative government on a number of issues. On 31 May 1904,he formally crossed the floor of the Commons to join the opposition Liberals,remaining a party member until March 1924.
Winston Churchill retained his UK Parliamentary seat at the 1929 general election as member for Epping,but the Conservative Party was defeated and,with Ramsay MacDonald forming his second Labour government,Churchill was out of office and would remain so until the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939. This period of his life has been dubbed his "wilderness years",but he was extremely active politically as the main opponent of the government's policy of appeasement in the face of increasing German,Italian and Japanese militarism.
In 20th century politics,Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was one of the world's most influential and significant figures. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945,when he led the country to victory in the Second World War,and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924,he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist,he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party,and its leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
Winston Churchill lost his seat of Dundee in the 1922 general election as a National Liberal follower of David Lloyd George. The election was the only time a challenger standing as a prohibitionist was elected as an MP in the UK.
