Plot hole: OK, a good laugh but why on earth deploy HMS Vengeance as a guard vessel to the G12 conference? Surfaced submarines are pretty exposed and useless against any likely threat, compared to a frigate or destroyer with SAMs, guns, small arms etc. And if the plot device is to have her launch a missile, Vengeance (as named and pictured) only carries torpedoes and Trident ballistic missiles, so hitting Volta's yacht with a missile wouldn't blow it up, more vaporise the whole area, even if it could attack something at such short range.

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
2 plot holes - chronological order
Directed by: David Kerr
Starring: Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Jake Lacy
Factual error: The country of Pakistan was shown to be part of the G12 summit member countries. But the G12 are Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. (13 countries, but the name was never changed when Switzerland joined in 1984).
Johnny English: Golightly. Basil Golightly. And, you're rather useful yourself, Miss...?
Ophelia Bhuletova: Bhuletova. Ophelia Bhuletova.
Johnny English: And this is...
Bough: Colin.
Johnny English: [quietly] I thought we were using fake names?
Bough: [quietly] That is a fake name.
Johnny English: [quietly] Oh, right.
Johnny English: Yes, this is Colin, and I'm...
Bough: [quietly] Basil.
Johnny English: Dasil... Basil.
Trivia: Dame Emma Thompson, who plays the role of the British Prime Minister, is the wife of Greg Wise, the actor who portrayed Agent One in Johnny English (2003).
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Answer: Because, it was time for a comeback, so they tasked Bough to complete the team.