Was Winston Churchill a racist? A look at the evidence
From our UK edition
'Racist' read the spray-painted epithet on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square following a climate protest in 2020. This brutal assessment of Britain’s wartime leader wasn’t a one-off: ‘Just because Hitler was a racist does not mean Churchill could not have been one,’ says the Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal. In recent years, a movement to ‘tell the truth’ about Churchill has sprung up. He should be knocked from perch, plinth and prominence, his critics argue. So what is the truth about Churchill? Churchill's critics say the language he used is proof he was a racist. But is this right?
