Rishi sinks Boris’s plan for £250,000,000 new royal yacht
Rishi sinks Boris’s plan for £250,000,000 new royal yacht
A new royal yacht, bigged up by Boris Johnson, won’t set sail after all (Picture: Getty/PA)
A £250 million plan to replace the Queen’s Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped by Rishi Sunak.
Boris Johnson wanted a successor to the former pleasure vessel, which served Her Majesty until 1997 and is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh, but the new prime minister has other ideas.
The plans faced…