However, the second Churchill government elected in 1951 favoured the RAF and reduced the naval budget. With the RN priority being anti-submarine frigates, restart of work on the "Tiger" cruisers was delayed by three years (as was any further cruiser reconstructions) to 1954. Reconstructing the 5,500-ton "Bellona"-class cruiser, HMS "Royalist", which had powerful and reliable guns for high level AA engagement seemed less risky than adopting the still troublesome USN 5/54 or the planned British 5-inch gun. In some ways it was the powerful light gunship that 'cruiser destroyers' were meant to be but, over-equipped with guns and radar processing, leaving the crew little space and comfort. Post-war Britain saw itself as an air missile consumer and economic needs were better met by using the big shipyard slips which could have built large cruisers for building fast ocean passenger liners.