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Tories’ defence review plan could scupper Laird’s contract bid
Apr 29 2009 by David Bartlett, Heswall News
THE Conservatives could scrap a huge defence contract which Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird is in the running for.
The party admitted that should it win the next general election it would start a “strategic review” of Ministry of Defence spending as soon as possible.
In March the shipyard was named joint preferred bidder for work on two of the biggest Royal Navy vessels to be built for the £150m contract.
Cammell Laird and the Teesside yard of A&P are in final negotiations with the MoD to build the flight decks of the UK’s two Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.
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