The Times:
…..On Tuesday night James Heappey, the armed forces minister, suggested that the Royal Navy could deploy an aircraft carrier to the Red Sea if required.
He told The House magazine that the UK could send warships “if we were needed to plug a gap in US deployments or if the situation deteriorates”. He added: “There’s a thing about just maintaining a carrier presence in the region where we might co-operate with the Americans to provide a capability there.”
Should the USS Dwight D Eisenhower, presently deployed in the Red Sea, return to the US, the UK could step in with either the HMS Prince of Wales or HMS Queen Elizabeth, two warships designed to carry F-35 fighter jets, Heappey said….