In May 1940, the opposition Labour Party (UK) in Parliament of the United Kingdom Norway Debate of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for being too weak in the face of the Nazi onslaught. Chamberlain tells Conservative Party (UK) advisers that he wants Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax as his successor, but Halifax does not feel the time is right. Chamberlain Norway Debate the only man whom the opposition parties will accept: Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had correctly predicted the danger from Adolf Hitler before the war.