Britons urge the government of Prime Minister Theresa May to release a report about Saudi Arabia’s funding of extremists operating in the UK, and to stop selling arms to the kingdom.
An exclusive poll for The Independent showed Sunday that an overwhelming majority of the public believe it is wrong for Britain to provide the Saudis with billions of pounds of weapons being used against innocent civilians in Yemen.
The poll by BMG Research has found that only 18 percent of people support those sales “while the Middle Eastern state is engaged in Yemen’s civil war” – while 58 percent are against it.
“Instead of giving the Saudis a stern talking to, ministers are flogging them arms,” Tom Brake, a Liberal Democrat frontbench MP, said.
“They are desperate for shady Middle Eastern trade deals because they are hell-bent on taking us out of the world’s most lucrative single market, in Europe, with nations who share our values.”
