Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct? a) The members of the Labour Party were sympathetic to Indian aspirations. b) Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Britain during the second world war favored Indian independence. c) Winston Churchill sent Sir Stafford Cripps, to India to try and forge a compromise with Gandhiji and the Congress.

Statements a and b are correct. Statements b and c are correct. Statements a and c are correct. All the statements are correct.

Statements a and c are correct.

By 1940's Britain had an all-party government, whose Labour members were sympathetic to Indian aspirations, but whose Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was a diehard imperialist who insisted that he had not been appointed the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. In the spring of 1942, Churchill was persuaded to send one of his ministers, Sir Stafford Cripps, to India to try and forge a compromise with Gandhiji and the Congress.