UK to resume Saudi arms sales after Yemen review

Sales were suspended last year after a legal challenge by campaigners.

The Campaign Against the Arms Trade said it was a "morally bankrupt" move.

It accused the government of "rank hypocrisy" after, on Monday, it banned 20 senior Saudi officials from entering the UK and frozen their assets in connection with the 2018 killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Labour said the government's "mixed messages...undermined the UK's claim to be human rights defenders".

The UK's support for the Saudi-led international coalition in Yemen, which is backing the country's government in its battle against a long-running Houthi insurgency, has proved highly controversial.

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