Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...

Grant Shapps hits out at submarine’s new name - Grant Shapps said ‘woke nonsense’ is being put ahead of tradition ...

HMS Agincourt has been renamed Achilles amid reports the defence ministry did not want to offend France.

The name was changed to HMS Achilles reportedly over concerns that the original may have offended the French.

A decision to rename nuclear-powered submarine HMS Agincourt is “woke nonsense”, a former defence secretary said.