British ‘lethality’? Gavin Williamson’s brain has gone absent without leave | Simon Jenkins

The defence secretary’s big talk about boosting the UK’s ‘global presence’ and ‘hard power’ prove he’s lost touch with realityThe defence secretary’s brain has gone absent without leave. Gavin Williamson is expected to say in a speech today that he intends to send his new aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, round the world to frighten China. He will equip it with a squadron of F-35 fighter jets, borrowed from America. In addition he wants to