Britain’s main opposition Labour Party says it would stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia if it was in government after the disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“We would stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia in current circumstances until they changed their ways …We would be making it clear that we disagreed,” Emily Thornberry, Labour’s so-called shadow foreign minister, said on Sunday.
Thornberry, speaking to the BBC, advised the Conservative Party-led British government to be serious about allegations that the Saudi government ordered the killing of Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi royals who had been living in exile the United States since last year.
“I think our country has had enough of this. I think we have to stand up to them and have to say that the current behavior is unacceptable,” she said.
Khashoggi has been unaccounted for since October 2, when he entered the Saudi…