Churchill dies in auto accident in New York in 1931

A good point but remember the Labour leaders had adopted similar positions themselves. The Tory aristocrat proved a convenient scapegoat for their own failures. Without Churchill, I don't think they would have been in a position to play kingmaker as OTL. They would have had an option to join the National (Conservative ) Government in a wartime coalition or not. And not wouldn't have been a good option for their long term political future. If the war is won they are unpatriotic traitors. If the war is lost, backstabbing scapegoats themselves. And Attlee and Bevan genuinely patriotic men. OTL in a position to partly manipulate the Tory succession they took it. Faced with a united Conservative party would they have raised the issue? Assuming of course that we don't have a TTL "Otherhill" in Eden, Duff Cooper or Emrys Evans .
 
I've done several searches and surprisingly cannot find this as a PoD for any new TL. Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

ACCIDENT TO WINSTON
CHURCHILL.
New York, December 15
Mr. Winston Churchill, the British
statesman, who was knocked down by
a motor car in Fifth-avenue on Sunday
night, is reported by the doctors of
the Lenox Hill Hospitol, where he is
detained, to be have succumbed to his injuries
after. developing pleurisy asa result of
a blow to the right side of the. chest.
They had expected him to survive but it
would appear that the injuries suffered
were more severe than first thought.
Mr. Churchill was in America to
deliver a series of lectures on "The
Destiny of the English-speaking People."
The accident occurred when he at
tempted to cross Fifth-avenue after
alighting from a taxi cab. A second
taxi struck him knocking him to the
roadway. The. driver of the second car I
took him to the hospital, immediately.
Stating that he had tried to cross
the street against the traffic lights.
Police have not yet completed their
investigation. Mr Churchill is a Member of
the British Parliament and well known as
a journalist, author and lecturer. His mother
was Lady Randolph Churchill,
the former Miss Jennie Jerome
I remember they once made a PC game with this POD, its was called Turning Point, Fall of Liberty, not a good shooter but interesting timeline.
 
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