He became a friend of Julian Amery MP, who as Minister for Housing and Construction at the Department of the Environment, appointed him his Parliamentary Private Secretary. As an MP he was a member of the parliamentary ski team and chairman of the Commons Flying Club. Winston was still a journalist with The Daily Telegraph when his father died in 1968 the paper's proprietor, Lord Hartwell, took the decision to employ Martin Gilbert to continue the work on the former Prime Minister's biography that Randolph had started.Ĭhurchill became Member of Parliament for the constituency of Stretford, near Manchester, at the 1970 general election. In spite of the unpopularity of the incumbent Labour government, he lost, but only by 577 votes. Heath was already a senior cabinet minister, and the following year was elected leader of the party following the resignation of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who lost the general election to Labour and Harold Wilson.Ĭhurchill's first attempt to enter Parliament was at the 1967 Manchester Gorton by-election. However, he was at the centre of the Conservative campaign: despite being quite inexperienced in politics, he had been appointed as Edward Heath's personal assistant. Political career Ĭhurchill was not able to take up his grandfather's parliamentary seat at Woodford in Essex when he stepped down at the 1964 general election, three months before his death at the age of 90. In 1965, he became a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Like other members of his family, he began a lecture tour of the United States.
He reported in further trouble spots including Communist China, and the carnation revolution in Portugal. In the early 1970s at Biafra, Nigeria, he witnessed both war and famine and the indiscriminate bombing of civilians was an outrage to him. In 1968, he visited Czechoslovakia to record the Prague Spring and when the Democratic Convention was held in the wake of public assassinations at Chicago in the same year he was attacked by the police. During the 1960s he covered conflicts in Yemen and Borneo as well as the Vietnam War. Winston (right), his father, and grandfather in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Garterīefore becoming a Member of Parliament, he was a journalist, notably in the Middle East during the Six-Day War, during which time he met numerous Israeli politicians, including Moshe Dayan, and published a book recounting the war.
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