Britain’s closest European military allies have held talks about how to defend the North Atlantic in the absence of the Royal Navy amid growing concern at the state of the fleet.
Britain sent a rear admiral to talks convened by France with Italy, Spain and the Netherlands on how to plug gaps left by the absence of working British warships, in the face of growing Russian belligerence.
Ministers are already under immense pressure to increase funding for the Armed Forces and speed up the building of warships after a year of embarrassment.
It included HMS Dragon taking three weeks to get to the eastern
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