‘This city will kill me’: Churchill, the maggot saga, and how the cigar-puffing statesman came to despise Dundee

Today marks 80 years since Churchill woke up to his first day on the job of prime minister – having been granted the position at midnight on May 10 1940. However, his relationship with Dundee – where he was MP for 14 years – was somewhat turbulent, as Gayle Ritchie finds out…

He was the prime minister who led Britain to victory in the Second World War, famous for his inspiring speeches and his refusal to give up the fight against the Nazis.