I HAVE to agree with Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party, who gave a speech in London recently about arms sales; calling on the Government to suspend sales to Saudi Arabia.

Britain’s foreign policy cannot be divorced from counter-terrorism and that the UK must end its special relationship with Saudi Arabia – a country which turns a “blind eye while weapons flow freely to ISIS.

Saudi Arabia has been accused of causing the vast majority of civilian deaths in the conflict in Yemen, including with weapons sold to the Saudi dictatorship by the UK Government.

Since March 2015, when Saudi Arabia intervened in the civil war in Yemen, the UK has licensed £3.3bn worth of arms to the Saudi regime.

Why is no one holding the Prime Minister to account for the human rights abuses of the Saudi regime, and their regimes complicity with Islamic extremism.

With the UK currently the second biggest arms dealer in the world, we should be campaigning to suspend all arms sales to countries which are violating human rights.

The British Government’s cosy relationship with Riyadh must end.

The Saudi Regime is a human rights abuser and turns a blind eye while weapons flow into the hand of terrorists.

In the wake of the horrific and despicable acts of terrorism we have seen in the last three months we need to have an honest conversation about foreign policy and realise it cannot be divorced from counter-terrorism.

It is a national shame that the UK sells arms to a regime that looks away while weapons flow freely to ISIS.

I appeal to Theresa May to begin righting this atrocity by immediately suspending all arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

The Green Party will always campaign for the UK to suspend arms sales to countries which are violating human rights – this is the absolute minimum requirement of a confident and caring nation.”

Tom Nichols

Whiteshill