How Dunkirk Did for The Tories

I have been asked to post this article originally published only on Mailplus, on this site. Here it is :

 

 



 

IT WAS Dunkirk that really did for the Tory Party. They have never recovered from it. The history books and the TV documentaries remember this terrible national humiliation as part of our finest hour in 1940.

 

But at the time and for long afterwards feelings were much more mixed. The successful 2017 film of the event, starring Kenneth Branagh, barely bothered to...