 For his part Roosevelt seems to have enjoyed the distraction.Beaverbrook devoted himself to Churchill's 1945 general election campaign, but a "Daily Express" headline warning that a Labour victory would amount to the 'Gestapo in Britain' (adapted from a passage in a radio election speech by Churchill on 4 June) was a huge mistake and completely misjudged the public mood.Beaverbrook renounced his British citizenship and left the Conservative Party in 1951, but remained an Empire loyalist throughout his life.