Churchill was born on 10 October 1940 at Chequers, Buckinghamshire, England, five months after his grandfather became Prime Minister, a year into the Second World War.

[3] Before becoming a Member of Parliament he was a journalist, notably in the Middle East during the Six-Day War, during which time he met numerous Israeli politicians, including Moshe Dayan.

[4] He visited Czechoslovakia in 1968 to record the Prague Spring, and when, that same year, in the wake of public assassinations, the Democratic National Convention was held at Chicago, he was attacked by the police.

[citation needed] Churchill was not able to take up his grandfather's parliamentary seat at Woodford in Essex when he stepped down at the 1964 general election, three months before his death at the age of 90.

He was still a journalist with The Daily Telegraph when his father died in 1968; the paper's proprietor, Lord Hartwell, took the decision to employ Martin Gilbert to continue the work on the former Prime Minister's biography that Randolph had started.

He became a friend of Julian Amery MP, who as Minister for Housing and Construction at the Department of the Environment, appointed him his Parliamentary Private Secretary.

After he attempted to question Alec Douglas-Home's abilities as Foreign Secretary, he was forced to resign in November 1973, just over three months before the Conservatives lost power to Harold Wilson's Labour Party for the second time in a decade.

He was part of a group of Conservative MPs of the era (including Margaret Thatcher) who were heavily critical of BBC coverage of the conflict in Northern Ireland as expressing communist sympathies, for which some journalists[who?]

His presentation at the despatch box was strident for the times; he was censured by the Speaker for calling Foreign Secretary David Owen "treacherous" over the abandonment of Rhodesia.

[8] After leaving Parliament at the 1997 election (his Davyhulme seat having been abolished), Churchill was a sought-after speaker on the lecture circuit, and wrote many articles in support of the Iraq War and the fight against Islamic terrorism.

[3] Churchill lived in Belgravia, London, where he died aged 69 on 2 March 2010 from prostate cancer, from which he had suffered for the last two years of his life.