Why so few nose intake fighters in RAF?

The RAF has two nose intake jet fighters I can think of, the SARO SR.A1 and English Electric Lightning. These two fighters and the Gloster Whittle E28/39 are the only nose intake jets in the RAF.

Meanwhile, everyone else was making nose intake fighters into the late 1950s or longer. Why not the RAF?
 
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The English Electric Lightning was almost an exception to the rule because of the need to put a radar in the nose of the plane. Remember, the MiG-21 and Su-7 were intended as daytime fighters, not an all-weather interceptor. If you've seen the MiG-21, the early versions (Fishbed-C) had a smaller nose and were intended as a clear-weather interceptor; the later versions (Fishbed-D and later) had totally new nose with a bigger nosecone to accommodate an all-weather radar system).
 
The English Electric Lightning was almost an exception to the rule because of the need to put a radar in the nose of the plane. Remember, the MiG-21 and Su-7 were intended as daytime fighters, not an all-weather interceptor. If you've seen the MiG-21, the early versions (Fishbed-C) had a smaller nose and were intended as a clear-weather interceptor; the later versions (Fishbed-D and later) had totally new nose with a bigger nosecone to accommodate an all-weather radar system).

So, in a word, the answer is - clouds?
 
British companies designed quite a few with nose intakes but only those two got to hardware stage. The initial P.1067 design - initially called Demon but became Hunter - was intended with a nose intake but this was changed to the wingroots after the early mock up was built as it was realised that the cockpit would be too snug for a pilot and all the instrumentation.
 
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