DBWI: Churchill's father survives motor accident?

Hi all,
Not sure whether this has been discussed before, but here goes anyway.
I've just been watching an old interview Randolph Churchill did for the BBC not long before his death. The former Prime Minister was quite canded about his early life, most notably when discussing the 1931 death of his father Winston Churchill SR, in a traffic accident in New York. According to Randolph, it was this event that motivated him to go in to politics and continue his late father's work.
This made me wonder-what if Winston either is more careful, or he survives the accident and makes a full recovery?
Does Randolph go in to politics anyway and does he still make it to No. 10? ITTL he doesn't have the shock of his father's unexpected death to motivate him, but on the other hand Winston may encourage his son to go in to politics.
If we asume the former how do things play out in the 1960's with Randy's influence either nonexistent or greatly reduced?
Also, what does the older Churchill do in his later life from 1931 onwards? By the time of his death he'd been out of cabinet for a few years, does he find himself back in government at any point?
This is probably ASB but I'll ask it anyway-could we see a Prime Minister Winston Churchill?
Ooc: I know the "Churchill dies in 1931" discussion is a regular occurance on this board, but I'm trying to put a more original spin on it (more so than the Turning Point scenario at least).
 
IIRC Winston had burned his bridges with the Magic Circle too much for him to become leader or PM. If anything, his continued presence might have stifled Randy's career.
 
IIRC Winston had burned his bridges with the Magic Circle too much for him to become leader or PM. If anything, his continued presence might have stifled Randy's career.

Interesting. So are we asuming that Winston doesn't even get a cabinet position again, from either Baldwin or his successors?
On one hand he'd fallen out bigtime with the powers that be by 1931. On the other however, he had a nack for making comebacks (I think he had something to do with Gallipoli during World War I and had to resign in disgrace, a few years later he ended up as Baldwin's chancellor).
It'd be quite ironic if Churchill sr was in the government when Eden succeeded Chainberlain, considering Randy's comments that Eden helped him a great deal in his early political career IOTL.
 
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