Could Dido cruisers have led more Tribal flotillas?

A proposed expansion to four or five Tribal flotillas before the Second World War provides the starting point for this counterfactual. If leaders had been assigned to those flotillas, Dido-class cruisers are suggested as probable candidates. The Tribal's internal proportions are compared with those of a cruiser, while the Dido packs its capabilities into more crowded spaces. That crowding matters for the presence missions and peacetime duties expected of a cruiser. A separate wartime example involves destroyers operating with cruiser support, while also being able to outpace it. Such cooperation does not establish that the proposed prewar pairing was adopted.