![Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy said that any decision to revert to the F-35B was a ''mess entirely of ministers' own making'' [F-35B Lightning II]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtA8-heRbreCDFUL0URhhuGljjXQEftyOUjWC0uEN2iEHAYoG1Rrwq7cSGjYw3UbC59Z-nLu82eSVVwrfNw1Oa66L7sL3dGaMZnN4fVuTGmHV-7ZE51psS4KkIjVfQKz9EfAY/s144/F-35B.jpg)
Cameron is said to have resisted the decision after naming the carrier variant F-35C as the government's preferred option in 2010's Strategic Defence and Security Review, but the estimated £1.8bn cost of converting the under-construction Queen Elizabeth class carriers to operate a catapult launch system was reportedly deemed unaffordable.
When the carriers were designed, the then-Labour government had specified that the F-35B would be used.
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