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		</div><p>British Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing demands to give honest answers to British MPs in Parliament about a failed test of the Trident nuclear deterrent.</p>
<p>Mrs May refused to answer questions on Sunday over her knowledge of the test, in which an unarmed Trident missile reportedly malfunctioned off the coast of Florida in June.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister was criticised after failing to disclose whether or not she knew about it, just weeks before MPs approved the £40bn Trident renewal programme in July, and is being urged to come clean.</p>
<p>Asked if knowledge of the failed test could have influenced the MPs&#8217; decision, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith told BBC Breakfast: &#8220;We don&#8217;t know because we don&#8217;t know exactly what happened, so we can&#8217;t speculate on that until we have a full report, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re calling for today.</p>
<p>&#8220;The incident itself speaks for itself, if the reports are true, that a missile veering off course is something to be extremely concerned about.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we need to have the full detail of exactly what did happen and why this occurred.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0329.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IMG_0329.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104273" /></a></p>
<p>Appearing on BBC One&#8217;s The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mrs May repeatedly refused to disclose whether she knew about the failed test before her speech to MPs, instead saying she had &#8220;absolute faith&#8221; in the Trident system.</p>
<p>Ms Griffith said the issue was so important that Mrs May &#8220;certainly should&#8221; have answered questions on it.<br />
She told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a serious incident she is bound to have known and what she needs to tell us is did she know before she gave a major speech on Trident just days after she became prime minister.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the sort of thing you would forget if you had been briefed about it in the preparation for that speech.&#8221;</p>
<p>The apparent cover-up over the failed test, involving an unarmed Trident II D5 missile launched from a British submarine, prompted widespread criticism and incredulity.</p>
<p>Labour peer and former senior Royal Navy officer Admiral Lord West said it was &#8220;bizarre and stupid&#8221; not to tell anyone about the test, suggesting the Government had acted like North Korea in covering up the news.</p>
<p>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the failed test &#8220;a pretty catastrophic error&#8221;, while the SNP&#8217;s Nicola Sturgeon has called for &#8220;full disclosure&#8221; about who knew what and when.</p>
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