A MOOD of ‘great uncertainty’ has hit Portsmouth’s dockyard after a fresh wave of jobs cuts were revealed.
Defence giant BAE Systems has axed 20 staff from its books while Highbury College has made a number of its engineering lecturers in the facility redundant.
The move has frustrated campaigners opposed to job losses in the complex.
Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, the former council leader and head of the city’s Liberal Democrat party, said this was the latest blow for Portsmouth.
It comes in the wake of prime minister David Cameron’s decision to scrap shipbuilding in the city – with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
‘I’m incredibly disappointed to hear this news,’ said Cllr Vernon-Jackon.
‘The prime minister promised he would bring shipbuilding back to Portsmouth.
‘Well yet again, this is another example of how that promise has been broken.’
