| | Brendan Bracken: The Fantasist Whose Dreams Came True - The Churchill Centre |
 | | Noticing Bracken's extraordinary influence with Churchill, people began to ask, "Who is he?" So emerged the clinging rumour that Bracken was Churchill's natural son, fanned, perhaps, by reports that Bracken was exhibiting Churchill family photographs in the flat he had taken in Mayfair. |
 | | Early in 1929 Bracken got himself adopted as Conservative candidate for North Paddington and was returned to the House of Commons at the General Election later that year which brought Labour to power. |
 | | Bracken refused ministerial office, preferring to remain close to Churchill, who overrode the opposition of the King and had Bracken made a member of the Privy Council. |
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