By Sammie Jones-
Theresa May is right not to discuss the trident testing error that occurred last year.
A Trident missile testing in 2016 deviated from its intended trajectory, veering off towards America instead of Africa.
Theresa May, Labour ministers and ministers from the SNP pressed the prime minister for clarification about what actually happened, but
May has declined to discuss lose operational details relating to matters of national security.
However, she said she is regularly briefed about matters relating to missile testing and national security issues.
The prime minister is absolutely right to be silent about sensitive information that can compromise the security of the country.
Andrew Marr asked Theresa May four times to say what she knew about the incident, before remarking that he will not get a straight answer to his question.
Andrew Marr’s Question Too Sensitive
Well, Marr is an experienced and bright journalist, but he failed to appreciate how sensitive this particular question to the prime.minister was to issues of national security.
Marr is good at pressing for answers he wants, and often gets them eventually. However, there are times when some questions should be skipped or not pressed for.
In his eagerness to pin the prime minister down, Marr could have considered the security issues associated with his question.
The missile error in itself is disturbing and disappointing. Journalists and the public would naturally want to know what happened and why it happened.
However, this is one of those situations when the public do not need to know why the accident happened. That must be left for the government to work out and sort out.
Information relating to blunders of nuclear testing is not for the whole world to know. Labour MPs and other critics of May should know this, but they are too concerned with the opportunity of being seen to be holding the prime minister to task.