Professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University sneered that Churchill had not fought personally in the Second World War. "I mean, was it Churchill out there fighting the war?" he said. "Cause I'm pretty sure it wasn't; I'm pretty sure he was at home." Ignoring the fact that Churchill was 65 when the war broke out, and thus way past the age of conscription, in fact Churchill showed great personal bravery, going up on to the Air Ministry roof during the Blitz, and travelling 110,000 miles outside the UK, often within the radius of Luftwaffe fighters. "I'm pretty sure that if Churchill wasn't there," Prof Andrews went on, "the war would have still ended in the same way, right?" Wrong. As Clement Attlee, Churchill's deputy prime minister said, "Without Churchill, Britain might have been defeated."