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Friday, May 11, 2012

Coalition U-turn on carrier jets 'wasted £258m': Labour blasts 'chaotic' decision buy jump jets after all

[F-35B Lightning II]David Cameron’s ‘chaotic’ U-turn on warplanes for Britain’s new aircraft carriers has cost a staggering quarter of a billion pounds, it was claimed yesterday.

Defence sources admitted the Coalition had rushed its ‘high-risk’ decision to buy conventional fighter jets to fly from the Royal Navy’s £6.2billion warships.

Ministers did this after scrapping the last Labour government’s plans to buy a fleet of jump jets, which can take off and land vertically.

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