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UK 'complicit in atrocities' with arms licences issued to Saudi Arabia at record high

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Britain is now issuing arms licences to Saudi Arabia at a record average of almost one a day. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss is making up for lost time after sales of our weaponry used to blow up children were suspended for a year following legal action by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).

And the end of an Appeal Court ban is good news for the Saudi dictatorship. It already uses 72 of our Eurofighter Typhoons and 81 Tornados along with Paveway bombs and Brimstone and Storm Shadow missiles to batter neighbouring Yemen in a five-year conflict that has killed 100,000 people, including 12,000 civilians.

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