A UK defence minister has failed to guarantee that a multi-billion pound programme to build Type 32 frigates in Scotland will go ahead.
Alex Chalk told the Record insisted it remained "overwhelmingly likely" the ships would be built - but added that future specifications still had to be worked out.
The Type 32 was previously announced in November 2020 by former prime minister Boris Johnson as part of a pledge to restore "British influence and excellence across the world’s oceans".
