UK Needs Bigger Navy in ‘Increasingly Hostile’ World: Lawmakers

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire for exercises off Scotland before heading to the Indo–Pacific region on May 1, 2021. PA

Britain must build a bigger and more advanced navy to protect the country in an “increasingly hostile and unpredictable international environment,” a cross-party group of lawmakers has warned.

On Tuesday, the Defence Committee of the House of Commons published its latest report entitled “We’re going to need a bigger Navy.”