(Editor's note : This post also contains the full Parliamentary exchange when the announcement was made)
By Nick Watts, Great North News Services
The decision, announced today, to press ahead with the purchase of the F35B is instructive. Coming as it does shortly after the MOD's White paper on Technology, Equipment and Support for UK defence and security it tells us much about the UK's ability to provide sovereign capability. The obvious headlines about U turns miss the wider point.
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