You mean the Winston Churchill who was one of the chief architects of the welfare state in Britain? The
Winston Churchill who criss-crossed the country championing old age pensions, prison reform, unemployment insurance, public health care, and reform (if not elimination) of the House of Lords?
The
Winston Churchill who created the system of national labor exchanges; he wrote to Prime Minister Asquith of the need to "spread ... a sort of Germanized network of state intervention and regulation" over the British labor market. But Churchill entertained much more ambitious goals for the Board of Trade. He proposed a plan whereby:
["]The Board of Trade was to act as the 'intelligence department' of the Government, forecasting trade and employment in the regions so that the Government could allocate contracts to the most deserving areas. At the summit ... would be a Committee of National Organisation, chaired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to supervise the economy.["]
THAT Winston Churchill?