Churchill’s Legacy

by Peter Oborne and Jesse Norman

As two very proud conservative thinkers, they explain some of the history and philosophy of the Act. It was actually the post-war Labour government which had far more doubts about enshrining rights and freedoms in law. But it was Winston Churchill who said: we must have these rights and freedoms enshrined in post-war Europe, and there’s an obvious reason for that: we’ve seen the Holocaust and the Blitz, and what totalitarianism can do.