Between 1940 and 1945, Churchill was the most popular British prime minister. According to a survey, in May 1945, Churchill enjoyed 83% of the British nation’s trust. Thus, everybody had assumed that Churchill would bring about a Tory victory in the following elections. Yet, this was not what actually happened… The Labour Party won the elections by a surprising majority defeating thus the great WW2 hero. Churchill was largely to blame for the Tory’s unexpected defeat in the elections. The qualities that made him an exceptional wartime leader were not, according to the British, adequate for handling peace-time domestic politics. The British historian Paul Anderson is of the opinion that because of Churchill’s wartime success as prime minister, he was defeated in the 1945 elections. Immediately after he became prime minister, Churchill asked the leaders of the three great English parties (Attlee, Sinclair and Chamberlain) to form a coalition government. The three leaders managed to reach an agreement which ensured the UK a stable governing coalition in the very difficult war period. Even today nobody is able to imagine that there could have been a better national leader than Churchill. Churchill was an exceptional wartime leader and his most important and constant objective was the military victory. Because of this, the problems concerning the party policy were not of great value whereas he was concerned. Moreover, at war’s end, British policy reverted to its original peace time course and Churchill discovered he had no specific direction or purpose. In the autumn 1940, Churchill became the Tory leader just because he wished to consolidate his authority as the wartime British prime minister. In Churchill’s opinion, the party was only for support and that is why he ignored its interests during the WW2. A Tory MP wrote in October, 1944 that there has never been a party w