Winston Churchill's grandson accuses National Portrait Gallery of 'ideologically motivated rant'
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Winston Churchill's grandson has accused the National Portrait Gallery of an "ideologically motivated rant" after it claimed the wartime leader deliberately starved Indians.Lord Soames, who sat in the House of Commons from 1983 to 2019, signed a letter alongside 50 other peers describing a taxpayer-funded attraction as a "barefaced lie".
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The National Portrait Gallery has been urged to explain itself after Helen Cammock's 40-minute film suggested Churchill "wilfully" inflicted mass starvation during the Bengal famine of 1943.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say She said: "He starved people, en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill."Lord Roberts, an award-winning historian who released his biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny in 2018, has since written to the gallery's board to voice concern about the film.In the letter sent to Professor...
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