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Chamberlain was forced out because the British labour refused to continue in government, if he remained. At the subsequent Tory gathering it was assumed that his foreign secretary and supporter of appeasement, Lord Halifax aka Ed Wood (no not the famous transvestite), would become PM. there was a tour de table at the meeting and Churchill was asked if he favoured this and supposedly having been advised by his 'Mandy', Irishman Brendan Bracken, he remained silent for 2 minutes, which in some quarters became known as the silence which saved britain. Halifax then said he could not be PM from the house of Lords and Winston became PM. What would have happened had Ed Wood become PM, was Churchill's silence the silence that saved Britain? He was retained as foreign Secretary for a while to maintain a show of unity but eventually packed off to Washington IOTL.
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