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Boris Johnson's government 'has licensed £2.8 billion in arms sales to human rights abusers'
A protester against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Britain in 2018. Saudi Arabia, which is waging a brutal war on Yemen, is the number one purchaser of British weaponry
THE government has licensed £2.8 billion worth of arms to human rights abusers since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, damning new analysis has found.
Since July 2019, the government has given the green light to the sale of billions of pounds’ worth of arms to repressive regimes.
The Scottish Greens compared government arms export data from the time period with a list of countries ranked as “not free” by Freedom House, a US-government-funded human rights monitoring group.
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