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===Political ideology===
{{Toryism |expanded=people}}
{{Conservatism UK|Politicians}}
As a politician, Churchill was perceived by some to have been largely motivated by personal ambition rather than political principle.{{sfn|Rhodes James|1970|p=6}}{{sfn|Addison|1980|pp=23, 25}} During his early career, he was often provocative and argumentative to an unusual degree;{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|pp=121, 245}} and his barbed rhetorical style earned him enemies in parliament.{{sfn|Rhodes James|1970|p=20}}{{sfn|Gilbert|1991|p=168}} On the other hand, he was deemed to be an honest politician who displayed particular loyalty to his family and close friends.{{sfn|Rhodes James|1970|pp=4, 19}} [[Robert Rhodes James]] said he "lacked any capacity for intrigue and was refreshingly innocent and straightforward".{{sfn|Rhodes James|1970|p=53}}
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===Imperialism and racial views===
{{see also|Racial views of Winston Churchill}}
[[File:British Empire 1921.png|thumb|left|upright=1.3|The [[British Empire]] at its territorial peak in 1921]]
Churchill was a staunch [[imperialist]] and [[monarchist]], and consistently exhibited a "romanticised view" of the British Empire and reigning monarch, especially during his last term as premier.{{sfn|Addison|1980|p=38}}{{sfn|Ball|2001|p=308}}{{sfn|Jenkins|2001|p=22}} Churchill has been described as a "liberal imperialist"{{sfn|Adams|2011|p=253}} who saw British imperialism as a form of [[altruism]] that benefited its subject peoples.{{sfn|Addison|1980|pp=32, 40–41}} He advocated against black or indigenous self-rule in Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, the Americas and India, believing the British Empire maintained the welfare of those who lived in the colonies.<ref name="CRC"/>
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