Hopefully, the solution is new boats that are a more sensible size, and don’t need the extensive infrastructure upgrades the new fleet would have required. One of the cancelled designs would have been a similar displacement to our current fleet of three.
I really hope the solution isn’t another clapped out beater from Europe.
They were oddly quiet when the project got canned, and there were even a few admissions that the cost of the project had blown out to an unacceptable level.
I think Labour know their handling of the project will be brought up again if they protest.