We must stop arming Saudi

THE Saudi war in Yemen rages

on, and the Saudi Civil War has now begun.

Both are being armed to the teeth by the United Kingdom, with no concern as to the hands into which arms to the global nerve centre of Islamist terrorism might end up.

When the British arming of the Saudi war in Yemen was last brought to the floor of the House of Commons, then antiCorbyn Labour MPs ostentatiously abstained.

But since then, the hateful Michael Fallon has been forced from office, and it has been found that British-made cluster bombs were being used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

Since as long ago as last December, that has been admitted by absolutely everyone.

Saudi Arabia is not poor. It is fabulously rich.

Its British-made cluster bombs, in use in Yemen and soon (if not already) by Saudis against Saudis, are not from the 1980s.

On this country’s absolutely toxic relationship with what is jointly the most repressive regime in the world, matched only by North Korea, Jeremy Corbyn has been right all along.

The supply of British arms to Saudi Arabia needs to be brought back to the floor of the House of Commons as a matter of the utmost urgency.

The rather good Labour Chief Whip ought to publish in advance the list of MPs with leave of absence.

For anyone else, abstention this time ought to mean deselection in due season, and universal moral revulsion with immediate effect.

No such person ought to be re-elected. And therefore, no such person ought to be reselected. DAVID LINDSAY Lanchester