Kingdom General Election, to the surprise of the Royal Navy, if not the RAF and Army supporting Tory constituency, Churchill strongly favoured the RAF and the 1952 Navy Estimates (budget) was reduced. The massive Korean War defence budget expansion by the Attlee government which allowed the Dido/ Town reconstruction programme to be fully designed was unaffordable by 1952 and the Type 275 Mk 6 radar (which could have allowed immediate fitting of the in-service cruisers HMS Phoebe, Diadem, Cleopatra and Euryalus to give long range AA capability to the 5.25 DP guns), was unavailable in a UK/RN model until 1955 and there was only enough unused stock of earlier equivalent sets (supplied under lend lease in 1944-45) to fit the carriers HMS Eagle and Ark Royal. The delays in equipment made completion of the Tiger class by 1954 impossible and an alternative plan to reconstruct the larger Town-class light cruisers, HMS Liverpool and HMS Glasgow with STAAG 2 anti-aircraft guns, Type 960M Air Warning radar, Mk 6 275 Flyplane fire control presumambly for the Mk19 twin 4 inch and lattice masts and AIO was cancelled in 1952. The RAF had priority and the Royal Navy view of development centred on frigates and large carriers - was not liked by Churchill. The cruiser reconstruction program was suspended for three years. With the immediate and changing priorities of the Korean War and the great difficulty and expense of developing compact steam propulsion with adequate range and speed and good close-in defence for the destroyers and frigates. The radical defence review in June 1953 saw heavy cuts to the navy but Royalists modernisation continued under a revised defence White paper in February 1954 which restored the RN programme and plans to complete the aircraft carrier Hermes and the s, but rejected starting further Dido/Bellona conversions as they lacked the "dual war and peace, cold war capabilities required for the RN". The other Didos – HMS Sirius and Phoebe – scheduled in the 1952 program to start reconstruction in April 1954, after 12 years in the water, were inspected in 1954 and declared for scrap, due to inadequate mothballing. Plans were made in 1952 for a more comprehensive modernisation of Cleopatra and Diadem starting in June and November 1955 with reboilering, full NBC protection, and new radar (992TA and (2)982 Air Warning) but reconstruction by 1955 at 5-6 million pounds per cruiser was twice