TIM HAZLEDINE: There is no 'covid fund'

TIM HAZLEDINE: There is no 'covid fund'
Winston Churchill's 'covid moment' - the 1925 Budget
Tim Hazledine
The long career of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was famously multifarious: soldier, speculator, statesman, bricklayer, artist, best-selling author, great war leader – and, Chancellor of the Exchequer for five budgets in the late-1920s Conservative government of Stanley Baldwin.Churchill – who had defected to the Liberals a few years before – was a surprise choice as Chancellor: what we call Minister of Finance. He made a reasonably good fist of the job but was bedevilled throughout by the consequences of his...

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