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.
Churchill war ministry
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Clement Attlee
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during 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 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.
The Roaring Lion, 1941
Jennie Spencer Churchill with her two sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right) in 1889
Churchill in the military dress uniform of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Aldershot in 1895
Churchill in 1900 around the time of his first election to Parliament