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PUBLISHED: 21:04 EST, 21 January 2017 | UPDATED: 21:36 EST, 22 January 2017
The former head of the Royal Navy blasted No10 today over its 'bizarre and stupid' decision to 'cover up' a major malfunction in the UK's Trident nuclear missile deterrent and said it made Britain look like North Korea.
It was claimed last night that Downing Street imposed a 'news blackout' about the failed test just weeks before a crucial Commons vote on the future of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
Today Theresa May refused four times to say if she knew about a major malfunction in the UK's Trident nuclear missile deterrent.
But Admiral Lord West, who led the Navy from 2002-2006 and later served as a security minister, said the decision not to admit the failed test was 'extraordinary'.
The PM is facing calls to 'come clean' about what she knew about the botched test by giving a statement to Parliament tomorrow. However it is more likely to be Defence Secretary Michael Fallon who will make the statement to MPs.
A Trident II D5 missile veered off course during a test last June near the coast of Florida last June, the Sunday Times reported.
The PM was accused of omitting any reference to the failed test when the Commons voted in July to spend £31billion on four new Trident submarines.
Today she repeatedly avoided direct questions on her knowledge of the test, simply saying she had 'absolute faith in our Trident missiles'.
Lord West hit out at ministers and officials over their failure to disclose the episode and said it was probably the work of some 'silly' special adviser [Spad] trying to be 'clever'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4144200/Trident-fiasco-covered-No10.html
Trident II (D5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile)#Trident_II_(D5)_UGM-133A
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