BRITAIN is continuing to arm some of the world’s most brutal regimes while hypocritically boasting of its commitment to human rights, a damning report revealed yesterday.

Ministers have repeatedly claimed that Britain has among the most rigorous arms exports controls in the world.

But the latest report from the influential parliamentary committee on arms export controls found that Britain continued to arm regimes with appalling human rights records including Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in 2014 despite them being officially listed as countries of concern.