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Government contractor Capita uses AI to analyse and summarise medical documents to ensure a candidate is suitable to enlist. It comes as the Army is suffering from a staffing crisis.
Understood to be the latest guidance, the internal policy document calls security clearance 'the primary barrier to non-UK personnel gaining a commission in the Army.'
Mr Shapps is said to be 'genuinely furious about this woke nonsense' and does not believe such policies are the way to address the military's recruitment crisis.
Outsourcing giant Capita, which is in charge of recruitment for the Army, said a staffing crisis in the military could in part be dealt with by lowering the strict standards for entry.