“People are now rather sort of joking that HMS Dragon went all the way out there and then broke down.”
The troubled fate of the HMS Dragon becoming the subject of jokes speaks to the serious matter of the Royal Navy “unquestionably” not being up to standard, says Michael Evans, former defence editor for The Times.
Michael Evans was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live Monday-Thursday, 10am-1pm.
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