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Churchill’s grandson questions link with Cambridge college after ‘trashing’ Robert Dex
Winston Churchill’s grandson has questioned whether a Cambridge University college should continue to benefit from the association with the former prime minister after hosting an event “trashing” his reputation.
Ex-Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames said an academic event hosted online by Churchill College was “idiotically sloppy”.
The former minister said the event on February 11 – titled The Racial Consequences of Churchill – marked a “new low in the current vogue for the denigration in general of British history and of Sir Winston Churchill’s memory in particular”.
Sir Nicholas, who stood down from the Commons in 2019, accused those who participated of “trashing” the war leader’s reputation.
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He continued that it marked a new low in the current vogue for the denigration in general of British history and of Sir Winston Churchill’s memory in particular .
In the paper for the Policy Exchange think-tank he said: If there was one academic institution in the world that one would hope and expect would give Churchill a full and fair hearing, rather than give a platform to those who overlook his astonishing contribution to the defeat of the most murderously racist regime in all history, it surely should be Churchill College Cambridge. The college was named in my grandfather’s honour and now home to his personal papers and one of the world’s most important archives.
| UPDATED: 18:06, Sun, Feb 28, 2021
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