Campaigners tonight urged Boris Johnson to commit to building Royal Navy supply ships in Britain after he dropped the biggest hint yet the £1.5billion deal would stay in the UK.
The Prime Minister is under mounting pressure to award the contract for three Fleet Solid Support vessels to a British consortium.
Appearing before the Commons Liaison Committee, he appeared to suggest they would be built in the UK. Challenged by Commons Defence Committee chairman Tobias Ellwood over military equipment, the Prime Minister said: “On shipbuilding alone, you should look at the ambitions of the Defence Secretary and what we are doing with the Fleet Solid Support ships, the investments we are making in frigates, the Type 31s, the Type 26s. “This is going
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