From, The Last Lion, biography of Winston Churchill, page 2036:
“Jock Colville later recalled,
“Churchill had a natural sympathy for simple people, because he himself
took a simple view of what was required; and he hated casuistry. That was
no doubt why the man-in-the-street loved him and the intellectuals did not.”
Churchill, for his part, considered those on the left who anointed themselves
the arbiters of right and wrong to be arrogant, “a fault,” Colville recalled,
Churchill “detested in others, particularly in its intellectual form.” For that
reason, Churchill “had dislike and contempt, of a kind which transcended
politics, of the intellectual wing of the Labour party,” which in turn
despised Churchill. In 1940 the intellectualism of the left was inimical to
Churchill and to Britain’s cause, which was simplicity itself: defeat Hitler.
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Lord Halifax and a Labour coalition urged Churchill to make a peace deal with Hitler after France was defeated in May 1940. This is the best deal you are going to get, they told him.