THE people who knew the most about the last war and its leaders were the ones who lived through it.

My late grandfather always spoke very well of Sir Winston Churchill and said he had saved us. In 1951 Britain returned a Conservative government under his leadership, much to my late mother's delight, who always voted for him.

Politicians being human make mistakes, but the alternative to us winning the Second World War hardly bears thinking about. Having been to Germany twice and knowing the sufferings and views of ordinary people, I consider myself extremely fortunate to be living now.

We should, as Mr George Jones so rightly says, be grateful to those who made our freedom possible.

– Ruth Purcell, Bulwark, Chepstow.