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Fleet Solid Support ships for Royal Navy WILL be built in UK, says Government

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Vital supply ships for the Royal Navy will be built in Britain – boosting UK industry and creating hundreds of jobs, the Defence Secretary announced today.

Three Fleet Solid Support ships will be made by UK-led teams, Ben Wallace revealed. The widely-anticipated move is a victory for the Mirror which, together with unions and MPs, has fought for the £1.5billion contract to stay on these shores.

The Ministry of Defence said that while “international companies will be invited to work in collaboration with UK firms to feed in their skills and expertise ...

the successful manufacturing team must be led by a British company”. Mr Wallace said: "Shipbuilding has historically been a British success story, and I am determined to revitalise this

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