LIZ TRUSS’S decision to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia despite a previous court ban was “absurd,” a lawyer representing campaigners told the High Court yesterday.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is challenging the July 2020 decision by the then international trade secretary to allow the licensing of arms deals with the kingdom, which has committed multiple breaches of international humanitarian law in Yemen.

Since the conflict began in 2015, Britain has sold military equipment worth more than £23 billion to the Saudi regime.