Although the British Army had no major operations for the time being, this did not mean the British people would truly remain indifferent during the early stages of the war.
George VI made a major move very soon. The first step he took was to reappoint Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, and to command Churchill to take full charge of naval offensives.
This was a post Churchill was very familiar with, and also his first step back into the British Cabinet Government.
On his second day as First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill submitted a naval action plan titled the "Mediterranean Strategic Plan" to George VI and Prime Minister Baldwin.
The entire plan was actually very simple, which was to achieve a complete blockade of the Mediterranean through the Anglo-French Combined Fleet.
Locking down the Mediterranean had two benefits. First, the enemy of Britain and France, Italy, was a Mediterranean country. Italy lacked domestic mineral resources and needed to obtain a large amount of mineral resources from abroad through maritime transport.
Blockading Italy would be a major blow to Italian industry and production, and might also undermine Italian morale.
Secondly, the Mediterranean was also very important to the German-Italian Alliance. Once the Mediterranean was blockaded, the German-Italian Alliance could only obtain material supplies from outside Europe through the North Sea to Atlantic route.
As long as the British Empire deployed its military again to blockade this route, Germany and Italy would become just like in WWI, able only to hold on bitterly by relying on domestic resources, and had already fallen behind in the war.
At present, wanting to achieve a complete blockade of the Mediterranean required not only the help of the French Navy, but also the need to closely monitor and maintain a good relationship with