The UK ditched plans to send an aircraft carrier to yesterday’s spectacular international naval review marking 250 years since US independence in a riposte to Donald Trump branding British carriers ‘toys’, it was claimed last night.
Defence sources claimed the Royal Navy scrapped plans for HMS Prince of Wales to join other NATO vessels in the parade in the port of New York and New Jersey in direct response to President Trump’s insult in March.
The Mail on Sunday understands that the UK originally offered the carrier’s participation last year, and in January, the US Navy itself announced that a ‘British aircraft
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