‘Fatty’ Soames springs to Grandpa’s defence

Oliver Marre | Sunday, 27 July 2008 Source: The Observer

Following last week's report that historians and the Churchill Society were not happy that the BNP has commissioned a portrait of Winston Churchill which the party is auctioning to raise funds, I hear that descendants of the wartime Prime Minister are also displeased.

Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson and Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, tells me: 'I am appalled to hear that the BNP are using my grandfather in this way. Indeed, it is in thoroughly bad taste bearing in mind he would be repelled by the whole idea of the BNP.' But as the BNP rather relies on bad taste, it's unlikely the party will agree to pull the lot from the auction