Overview
- Mervyn Kersh, 101, a Jewish D-Day veteran who later witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, told the Mail the war felt “a waste of time” and that Britain has “gone right downhill.”
- He pointed to 2025 small-boat Channel crossings exceeding 41,000, while stressing he has no objection to genuine asylum seekers.
- Kersh said recent political leaders do not show the commitment of figures such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
- GB News amplified the Mail interview and placed his comments alongside similar recent views from ex–Royal Navy serviceman Alec Penstone.
- Coverage recapped his service in the British Army’s Ordnance Corps, including a landing on Gold Beach during the Normandy campaign.