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After John McDonnell, the Labour leftwinger who may one day become the UK's chancellor, declared Winston Churchill this week a “villain”, my first thought was how much the celebrated British leader would have relished the uproar.
Mr McDonnell's hero is Aneurin Bevan, a fellow radical who served as health minister in the 1945-51 Labour governments that succeeded Churchill's wartime coalition. In 1948 Bevan reviled the Conservatives as “lower than vermin” — the sort of remark that Mr McDonnell, who lists his hobby in Who's Who as bringing down capitalism, would doubtless cheer from the rafters.
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