To cover up his serious health problems, the members of Parliament were told that he was suffering from exhaustion, he was 78 years old at the time, and that he needed to take some time off to recover. Things got even more serious with time and old age and two years later, one of the greatest British politicians stepped down from the political scene as a consequence of suffering another mild stroke in December 1956. By 1959, there was little left from what Winston Churchill had once been and during the elections of that year, his majority fell with about a thousand, given that most of the voters were unwilling to give their vote to a 85-year-old man who could barely speak anymore.
His life away from the political scene was very cruel. Aside of the fact that Churchill's physical health declined greatly, as he was not able to move...
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