The defence minister who gave repeated assurances over the safety of Ajax – the Army’s new £5.5bn medium armoured vehicle – says he was acting on information provided to him by senior MOD personnel.
Luke Pollard, the Defence Readiness and Industry Minister, told reporters during an event to mark the vehicle achieving Initial Operating Capability (IOC) earlier this month that earlier noise and vibration problems had been fixed and the platform was now safe.
But since then, reports of personnel falling unwell after operating the vehicle have cast doubt on the assurances he gave.
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