Why did Winston Churchill resign?

Question: Why did Winston Churchill resign!?

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BBC News from April 5, 1955:

1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigns
Sir Winston Churchill has resigned as prime minister of Britain due to his failing health!.
The news was announced in a statement from Buckingham Palace this afternoon!.

It said: "The Right Honorable Sir Winston Churchill had an audience with the Queen this evening and tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept!."

Sir Winston Churchill's resignation follows a dinner party held at 10 Downing Street last night attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and a number of the prime minister's past and present government colleagues!.

Tributes to the 80-year-old premier, who will be replaced by Sir Anthony Eden tomorrow, have poured in from around the world!.

'Blood, toil, tears and sweat'

Sir Winston Churchill's political career began in 1900 as Conservative MP for Oldham but in 1906, disillusioned with his party, he defected to the Liberal party!.

He first became prime minister, as a Conservative again, in 1940 and led the wartime Coalition Government during World War II!.

During this time he inspired courage throughout the entire British nation even though he had promised nothing more than "blood, toil, tears and sweat!."

After the war the Coalition Government broke up and Winston Churchill resigned the office of prime minister on 23 May 1945!.

He was immediately asked by the King to form a new government and his second tenure as prime minister, this time of a caretaker government, began!.

But Churchill, although regarded as a superb wartime leader, was regarded less favourably in peacetime and in the general election which followed in July 1945 he was heavily defeated!.

A Labour government, led by Clement Attlee, took the reins of power until 1951 when Winston Churchill once again became prime minister at the age of 77!.

In 1953 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in recognition of his services to his country!.

Sir Winston will continue to sit in the House of Commons as member for WoodfordWww@QuestionHome@Com

Because it was time for HIS FINEST HOUR after leading the British People through THEIR FINEST HOUR!. If you REALLY want to know about Churchill, then why are you asking for a one sentence reply here on Answers when you can just GOOGLE "Winston Churchill" and you will turn up NINE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND hits (9,410,000)!.!.!. wouldn't that be a much more complete answer than a single sentence on Answers!?

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Because like so many people who did great things, he got tired of fighting those who came after that wanted to live in the peace that he helped bring, but not continue the fight that would sustain it!.

He helped bring about the end of the Nazi threat and terror, but saw that his people had weakened and wanted to go easy on the new threat!.!.!. Communism!. Maybe he saw what happened to American heroes like Patton who suffered a very suspicious accident!.

Soon after the fall of the Nazis, ALL of the worlds "heavyweights" who spoke out against Communism were soon done away with!. Churchill, I believe, just gave up finally after years of toil and sweat!. To bad!.!.!. he was a great man!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because of his failing health!.

Everybody needs a bit of time out and I think he'd more than had his fair share of the workload!Www@QuestionHome@Com

he thought that his 'energies were not being used'Www@QuestionHome@Com