The waves bring back after Brexit
Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, is understood to be considering a detailed proposal to return the yacht to the seas. Sources said he sees it as a great symbol of global Britain.
The Royal Yacht Britannia should be recommissioned and used to secure trade deals after the Brexit vote, dozens of MPs, former ministers and a senior former aide to the Queen say.
The politicians back a campaign and call for the return of the incredible vessel, which was put out of service in 1997 by Tony Blair’s government.
Lord Jones of Birmingham, a trade minister in Gordon Brown's Government and former director general of the CBI, told the Telegraph: When I was Trade Minister I was amazed how many overseas contacts asked me why we ever got rid of Britannia.
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