Michael Portillo may not be everyone's favourite ex-defence secretary after selling off the families' quarters for a song, but his judgement on the equipment plan on This Week tonight was pretty sound... "it's full of rubbish, nuclear weapons that we will never ever use, and a carrier with no surface fleet to protect it and no aircraft". Interestingly Admiral Lord West (sat opposite him on the sofa) didn't appear to be too bothered by the latter comment!