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I've been enjoying Roy Jenkins' wonderful bio of Winston Churchill.
I wonder if anything significant would have happened if Churchill has stepped down as Conservative Party leader after the election disaster of 1945?
I suppose Eden would have become the new Opposition Leader, and ... according to Jenkins ... was more popular than Churchill in the country at large by the time of the 1950 election. So the Conservatives could have come back to power in 1950 rather than 1951.
Would it have made any difference? Would Eden have been a better PM if he took office earlier (he became PM only in 1955)? Or would he have merely self-destructed earlier as he did in 1956/57?
Any policy differences? Any differences in relations to Europe and the US?