what party was winston churchill in politics?
Conservative Party
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 In 1940 , Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister , though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax . After the King 's initial dismay over Churchill 's appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to the Cabinet , he and Churchill developed " the closest personal relationship in modern British history between a monarch and a Prime Minister " . Every Tuesday for four and a half years from September 1940 , the two men met privately for lunch to discuss the war in secret and with frankness . 

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 The leading candidate of the 19th century was one of the great intellectual figures of Jacobean England , Sir Francis Bacon , a lawyer , philosopher , essayist and scientist . Bacon 's candidacy relies upon historical and literary conjectures , as well as alleged cryptographical revelations . 

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 In April 1951 the Labour government was hit by the resignations of three ministers — Aneurin Bevan , the future prime minister Harold Wilson , and John Freeman — over the imposition of prescription charges to pay for an increased armaments programme . Driberg was sympathetic to the rebels , though he tried to find a basis for compromise that would avoid resignations . The former ministers strengthened the small Labour group known as " Keep Left " , in which Driberg was prominent ; the group would henceforth be known as " Bevanites " . In the October 1951 General Election the Labour Party was defeated , and Churchill resumed office ; Driberg held on to his Maldon seat by 704 votes . Through the years of Labour government he had neither received nor sought office , having what historian Kenneth O. Morgan called a " backbench mindset " . He still enjoyed aspects of his parliamentary life , such as in 1953 when he showed the American singing sensation Johnnie Ray round the House of Commons ; his attempts to seduce the singer were politely resisted . However , he needed to earn more money , and in the spring of 1952 responded to a suggestion that he should write a biography of Beaverbrook . The press lord was amenable , and work began in the summer of 1953 . The project extended over several years , by which time Driberg was no longer in parliament ; he had announced in March 1954 that he was standing down from Maldon , which at the General Election of May 1955 fell , as he had expected , to the Conservatives . 

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 An influential group assembled in Britain to lobby for his release from prison . Headed by Lord Hankey , the group included politicians Lord de L 'Isle and Richard Stokes , Field Marshal Alexander and Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orrery , and military historians Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller . Upon re @-@ gaining the prime ministership in 1951 , Winston Churchill , who was closely associated with the group , gave priority to the quick release of the war criminals remaining in British custody . 

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 As an instinctive conservative , Waugh believed that class divisions , with inequalities of wealth and position , were natural and that " no form of government [ was ] ordained by God as being better than any other " . In the post @-@ war " Age of the Common Man " , he attacked socialism ( the " Cripps – Attlee terror " ) and complained , after Churchill 's election in 1951 , that " the Conservative Party have never put the clock back a single second " . Waugh never voted in elections ; in 1959 , he expressed a hope that the Conservatives would win the election , which they did , but would not vote for them , saying " I should feel I was morally inculpated in their follies " and added : " I do not aspire to advise my sovereign in her choice of servants " . 
