Downing Street would not confirm Johnson’s likely trip to Riyadh, but sources have said he wants to appeal to the country to increase its oil output to replace supplies from Russia.
Ahead of the planned trip, MPs registered their deep concern in light of Saudi Arabia’s execution of 81 men on Saturday. Crispin Blunt, a backbench Conservative MP, secured an urgent question in the House of Commons, saying this “represents a new low for human rights and criminal justice in the kingdom, only a week after the crown prince had promised to modernise its justice system”.
Julian Lewis, the Tory chair of the Commons intelligence and security committee, called on the government to make sure that in seeking to replace energy from Russia with oil from Saudi Arabia, it did not create a “dependency on another unreliable and sometimes hostile regime”.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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