Winston Churchill

The wartime Churchill is usually seen alone. In fact the coalition's War Cabinet included Attlee, Bevin, Greenwood and later Morrison, and it was Attlee, as deputy, who chaired most domestic committees while Churchill ran the war. In May 1940 the cabinet's support, Attlee's and Greenwood's especially, was what let him defeat Lord Halifax's case for exploring peace terms. His peacetime government of 1951 to 1955 leaned heavily on Eden, Butler and Macmillan as he aged.