The quote “wasteful Ministry of Defence procurement projects” could have come from Dominic Cummings himself and as I pointed out
on the carrier thread a few weeks ago he has long cited the carriers as a prime example. However, it’s tricky to see how large savings could be generated without selling at least one of them off, which would attract much criticism for undermining the ‘global Britain’ narrative. A way of doing it while minimising political damage to Boris would be to actively brief against the carriers’ usefulness. That’s just the sort of skulduggery that Cummings and co would indulge in, so it will be interesting to see how this develops.