Winston Churchill - champion of the workers?!?
Sounds absurd I know, but I was taking a look at
this over on
changingthetimes, and came across the following passage (near the bottom on the page) from a meeting of the Liberal Cabinet in 1924:
But that was nothing as to my amazement when Winston then piped in with not only a statement supporting LG [Lloyd George] on the Gold Standard – something that I know that he has expressed opinions on in the past – but he then made an almost passionate statement saying that something must be done to deal with the situation with regard to the miners.
Apparently Winston was taken down a colliery near Merthyr Tydfil for a morning, and having seen first hand what they go through every day he re-emerged rather pale and with a profound desire to plead their case.
This looks like a really interesting idea, and I think it's simply a variation of the old story about FDR. Namely, that Eleanor took him to see how some poor working-class family in New York was living, and he came back out of their flat as above - rather pale and with a determination to make things better for people like them.
I feel if anyone known to us today as an arch-conservative could make such a big political change, it would be Churchill. He wandered all over the political map at one time or another: the only place he
didn't go was to the Labour left...
How can we
realistically end up with Winston Churchill either: as a 'compassionate Conservative' (but one who really means it); as a Liberal champion of the working classes and their interests; or preferably have him completely change heart, and join the Labour party?

Obviously the above scenario is a possible starting point, but I'd like to see as many other alternatives as we can come up with.
By 'champion of the workers', I do of course intend that he become a supporter of working-class causes (I'll leave you to specify which). I
do not mean that he becomes the key patron of a club called "the workers'", or any other smartarse way of getting round the wording of the challenge.
Rules (other than above):
1. No ASBs.
2. No very early life PODs - he must spend a while in Parliamentary politics before this change. None before, say, 1910, which makes him around 35 at least.
Let me know if the whole thing - or any one restriction - is impractical, or even impossible!