In 1886, Lord Randolph Churchill spoke out against the new Liberal government’s support for home rule in Ireland.
The witty and reckless Conservative politician, who was the father of Winston Churchill, issued a scathing attack on U.K. Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
The home rule proposal was a “conspiracy against the honour of Britain and the w…
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