Kirsty Wark asks Crispin Blunt: 'Did you walk out of Saudi-Yemen arms committee?' - BBC Newsnight
September 8, 2016
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as posted by the channelSources told Newsnight that influential MP Crispin Blunt had walked out of Parliament's Committees on Arms Export Controls to halt progress in the publication of a report on Britain's export of arms to Saudi Arabia. Kirsty Wark asked him whether he did - this is what he said.
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Early drafts of the report seen by Newsnight were highly critical of the the arms exports - and suggested that it was highly likely that arms sold to Saudi Arabia by a British company had been used to violate international and human rights law in Yemen. Newsnight also saw amendments submitted to the report in which members of the committee, Blunt included, had attempted to tone down the language of the report.
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