10 Downing Street: Campaign Manager Is Churchill

Lynn Zhou is a British-Chinese and former parliamentary assistant. Her greatest political achievement in life was buying umbrellas for her boss three times during heavy rains. Until the boss scandal broke out and he was pushed out to take the blame. The party headquarters handed him an "honorable resignation statement" with a tone as polite as a funeral invitation. That night, as he sought shelter from the rain in Churchill's wartime basement, he heard an old tape recorder playing on its own. "Young people, there are three things you cannot trust in British politics: polls, newspapers, and party whips who say they are just asking." From then on, the old prime minister, who loved cigars and champagne and had a temper as bad as London weather, became the campaign manager in his mind. The first battle is a House of Commons by-election that no one wants to win. The end point is No. 10 Downing Street. This time, the British won't directly elect their prime minister. They will only push the unlucky guy to the door step by step in the rain, in the bar, in the newspaper headlines, and in the ballots.