Together with Lloyd George, he fought the Great Budget War of 19, a successful attack on inequality and, as Johnson puts it, 'it was seen, inevitably, as an attack on the dukes and the very landed class from which Churchill emerged'. To combat unemployment, Churchill set up the first Labour Exchanges. The Churchill Factor by Boris Johnson 9789669427960 NEW Book. Written by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in. He began in 1908 with a Trades Board Bill which set legally enforceable minimum wages for certain jobs, particularly the mainly female low-paid garment workers in London's East End, Leeds, and Manchester. Kb The Churchill Factor af Boris Johnson som bog p engelsk til markedets laveste pris og f leveret i morgen. He argues that, along with David Lloyd George, Churchill can fairly be described as a co-founder of the welfare state.

Some aspects of Churchill's career are not so well known, and these are given due prominence by Johnson. His way of life was not exactly healthy: ten cigars a day, whisky and soda before breakfast, half a pint of Pol Roger, white wine, claret, late brandies, even during World War II. On the personal side he was a devoted husband, an artist, and an amateur bricklayer. He published more words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined, and he won the Nobel Prize for literature. As a soldier he was shot at on four continents. In politics Churchill was twice prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer. The most enthusiastic revisionist historian would grudgingly accept this proposition.Īs this highly readable account by London Mayor Boris Johnson shows, 1940 was the high point of a career that extended from the 1890s to the 1960s.

Had it not been for the leadership of Winston Churchill in 1940, Nazi Germany would in all probability have won World War II.

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