A BOURNEMOUTH MP has blasted the “bizarre” way the Ministry of Defence bought vehicles for Afghanistan.

Tobias Ellwood was speaking in a Parliamentary debate on the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Mr Ellwood, a former army officer, represents Bourne-mouth East, and he criticised Labour for not carrying out a defence review earlier.

He told the commons on Thursday: “A review might have helped to identify the fact that Snatch Land Rovers were not appropriate in Afghanistan.

“If we had held a defence review, perhaps we would have seen that the conduct and style of war was changing before our eyes.”

Labour’s Jim Murphy replied: “I think he will fairly accept that the urgent operational requirements worked well in Afghanistan, and after 9/11 we updated our defence review with a new chapter.”