Hanfimar
In answer to your question I'm afraid the decision is done and dusted. I wrote to my MP and to my surprise he actually phoned me up to discuss the matter. He had been shown around the finished article and was impressed with it even if he really didn't understand what it's capabilities meant. He called me again the other day to say that he and several of his MP colleagues had to report that sadly no change had been made; the MRA4 was dead, something I knew from personal contacts.
If the AFB, the Navy and the defence secretary did not want the aircraft cancelled, then that means that only one person could have made the decision – Dave, or his fuzzy thinking liberal co-hort. But then when the top man is only experienced in Politics, economics and spreadsheets, what else can you expect?