Executions in Saudi Arabia

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 14 March 2022.

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Photo of Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas Green, Brighton, Pavilion 3:32, 14 March 2022

May I press the Minister? Does she not see any contradiction between rightly ending dependence on Putin’s Russia for fossil fuels and then seeking to replace them by going cap in hand to another murderous tyrant, who executes his own people and to whom we sell arms that are being used to kill civilians in Yemen? Is she aware of reports in the US that Saudi Arabia is pressurising President Biden to repay access to oil by supplying more military support for its war in Yemen? Can she assure us that this Government would not tolerate a “more arms for oil” deal with that murderous regime?