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Alistair Lexden recalls Churchill’s sense of compassion

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Thursday, 29 January, 2015
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At oral question time in the Lords on January 28 he pointed out that exactly 50 years had now passed since Winston Churchill’s death and state funeral. He quoted some simple, eloquent words that Churchill had used in 1951: ‘The care and comfort of the elderly is a sacred task’. Alistair Lexden said: ‘Must we not do all that we can in our time to meet that great man’s standard?’

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