MoD’s fuelish £5k tab

IT seems excessive for the MoD to spend £5,500 on naming a ship.

To do the honours, they sent Second Sea Lord Jonathan Woodcock and his missus to South Korea, where the fuel tanker Tidesurge was built.

They could have waited for her to come home and, for just over a fiver from Aldi, smashed a bottle of prosecco against her bow.