A report authored by historian Lord Andrew Roberts for Policy Exchange warns of an “unholy alliance” of the political Left and Right attacking Winston Churchill’s legacy. He claims these new attacks on the wartime leader are “designed to rewrite history and rehabilitate appeasement to justify new Western isolationism, including withdrawing support for Ukraine”. Historically it was just the Left that criticised the British Bulldog…
Roberts rips apart “baseless” claims from the American Right about Churchill – including that he was “a warmongering idealist who pursued personally glory at the expense of Britain and wider western civilisation.” A nation that forgets its past has no future…
Read the report in full below:
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”