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‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ – words that steeled a nation
Eighty six years on from Churchill’s “blood, toil, tears and sweat” speech, David Clensy has been looking back at Churchill’s first speech as Prime Minister On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons for the first time as Prime Minister. Britain was at war, but it was a war already slipping…