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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Boris Johnson used South Korean-built vessel to trumpet plan for British shipbuilding

Bungling Boris Johnson used a South Korean-built vessel to trumpet his plan for a revival of Britain’s shipbuilding industry.

The blundering Prime Minister was pictured staring at the naval refuelling tanker RFA Tidespring as he promoted the Government’s updated National Shipbuilding Strategy at Birkenhead, Merseyside.

But the 39,000-tonne Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship’s hull was actually built in Asia.

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