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Babcock deputy quits after attacking defence shake-up
Lord Hesketh, the deputy chairman of Babcock, has resigned after he labelled the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier programme a “disaster”.
His resignation from the engineering group followed a report in the Daily Telegraph in which he was reported as saying the project would make the country a “laughing stock”.
Babcock is building the carriers at its shipyard in Rosyth.