A defence minister warned while in opposition that scrapping two ships would be “ bad for the Royal Navy ”, before going on to axe them in his first months in office. Luke Pollard, Labour’s Armed Forces minister, said earlier this year that HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark “ play a key role in the Royal Navy’s ability to project power and deploy Royal Marines at scale ”....
He criticised the Conservatives for not ruling out the mothballing of the two amphibious assault ships, which he said in January
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