BTW I love you're fantasy of a 24 sqd FJ force, all hitting high scores on exercises while our soldiers lack decent, deployable, available CAS.
The RN doesn't demand Trident. Our government demands that we have it, and the RN is the most capable at deploying it.
The £20bn + phoon doesn't distort the budget??
If you want to play fantasy sky fleets, you keep your 24 squadrons of Typhoons, and I'll buy 2 CVF with 6 * full time squadrons of Dave B's. Over a 20 year service, I wonder which fantasy fleet would be more useful and see more action???