May’s hypocrisy will never rule the waves | Letters

Royal Navy cuts | EU retirement rush | Tourism | Big Ben | Pink for boys | Evelyn WaughThe prime minister’s ecstatic welcome of the Royal Navy’s new £36bn aircraft carrier to Portsmouth (Report, 17 August) made me choke on my cornflakes. Can someone tell her that one ship, however colossally expensive, does not a navy make. Thanks to David Cameron, and a succession of defence cuts by his predecessors, the numbers of Royal Navy ships and their capabilities have been decimat