Right decision in the end.
It must have been sickening for Phillip Hammond to have to admit the last Labour Govenment were right about something.

http://www.channel4.com/news/u-turn-...rier-programme
http://www.itv.com/news/2012-05-10/w...rime-minister/
The prime minister has given Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond the green light to revert to the previous Labour administration's plans to buy the conventional jump-jet version of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter.