How a Type 22 without anti-ship missiles would be armed

Would a Type 22 without anti-ship missiles be rejected and cancelled as part of a deliberate weakening of British defence?

The Navy would fit a gun instead. The criticism concerns poor funding and defence organization; the claim of a deliberate plan to weaken Britain is rejected.

The gun was omitted because anti-ship missiles were expected to take over its surface-combat role. Without those missiles, the Royal Navy would put a gun on the design. The Type 42 provides the comparison because it did carry one. The separate political claim about cancellation goes beyond that design choice: harmful results from poor funding and defence organization do not by themselves establish an intention to weaken the country.