the way the uk media uses the term "allies" includes spain, germany, italy, finland, ukraine, japan and many countries that were occupied by the axis powers during the second world war, and yet excludes the russians and the chinese, who were by far the two most important members of the allied powers, excluding the united states.
if you want to hold to world war two language, and i'd suggest you should probably drop it altogether, it would be most accurate to decide that the uk (and, with it, canada) has since joined the axis powers and refer to this alliance as the axis and not as the allies.
as it is, the way the uk media uses the term is right out of orwell's darkest fantasies.