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Tories sold £700 million worth of bomb components to Saudi Arabia earlier this year
Prime Minister Boris Johnson being welcomed by Mohammed bin Salman Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as he arrived for a meeting at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia in March 2022
THE Tory government sold almost £700 million worth of parts for bombs to Saudi Arabia earlier this year, according to analysis of official figures by campaigners.
Recent figures released by the Department for International Trade (DfIT) reveal that Britain issued licences to the value of £746m to the Gulf State between April and June.
The vast majority of this sum — £698m — covered “components for bombs,” according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s analysis of the data, released today.
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