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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
George Morgan

Government accused of ‘selling out’ shipyards after £4bn plan revealed

Birkenhead’s Labour MP has slated Boris Johnson’s shipbuilding plan, after the PM visited the Wirral town earlier today.

Mr Johnson has announced a £4bn plan which the government hopes will secure the future of shipbuilding in the UK for the next 30 years.

The government said the plan would create tens of thousands of jobs and deliver more than 150 new naval and civil vessels over the next 30 years.

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