The result of this policy split was that until the last year of the 1930s, Churchill would be regarded, as the historian Tony Judt summed it up, as an “overtalented outsider: too good to be ignored but too unconventional and ‘unreliable’ to be appointed to the very highest office.” He was derided by other politicians as flighty, with more energy than judgment, immovable in his views but loose in his party loyalties.
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