Labour would give a £1.6bn shipbuilding contract to UK firms, the Mirror has revealed. The pledge would secure 6,000 British jobs.
The party is making the promise at its conference in Liverpool this week. Shadow defence secretary John Healey will confirm the policy which would give the deal for three Fleet Solid Support vessels to UK companies.
Healey told the Mirror: “We have seen a decade of failure on defence procurement where price rules everything else – competition is the cardinal interest from government ministers and they’re just as happy to see British taxpayers’ money buying equipment abroad as they are building defence equipment in Britain.”
