Don't tell Tony Benn, he'll be round to bat you.

It was neccesary of that I have no doubt. It was moving in a pincer movment with the Argie carrier the '25th of May.' If one carrier had been hit we would not have landed, instead we would have gone home with our tail between our legs.

I met some survivors of that when I was in Argieland a few years ago. Back then when the Sun was yelling 'Gotcha' there was no cheering within the task force. We were sympathetic that 300 odd young lads had died and also very worried that Argentina would want revenge.

We were right, a few days later the Sheffield was hit.