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Boris Johnson, a liar? The PM who admires Churchill – and Pinocchio 
HANK ROBERTS looks at the Prime Minister's record and concludes Dawn Butler may have had a point this week

BORIS JOHNSON admires Churchill. He has written a book about him: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History. 

He fancies himself a Churchillian figure. And indeed, he is. Not so much in his comparison to Churchill’s overseeing Britain’s part in the defeat of Nazi Germany, but more in his debacles and disasters. Here are just a few of Churchill’s.

His use of soldiers against the miners and other union action. Two strikers were shot dead in Liverpool in 1911.
In 1915 he orchestrated the disastrous Dardanelles naval campaign and the military landings on Gallipoli.
The famine in Bengal of 1943 is attributed to Churchill’s policies. Over 2.2 million died from of a population of 60.3 million. 
His racist statements about Gandhi.

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