The National Portrait Gallery has come under fire after displaying a film that accuses Sir Winston Churchill of deliberately starving millions of Indians during World War II, prompting a backlash from historians, peers and members of Churchill's own family.
The controversy centres on Persistence, a 40-minute film by artist Helen Cammock that links the wartime prime minister to the 1943 Bengal famine. Critics, including Churchill biographer Lord Roberts of Belgravia and Churchill's grandson, Lord Soames, have condemned the work as historically misleading and politically motivated.
