Boris Johnson allowed arms sales to Saudis after Yemen bombing

Boris Johnson recommended the sale for approval in August 2016. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty ImagesTory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson recommended that the UK allow Saudi Arabia to buy British bomb parts expected to be deployed in Yemen, days after an airstrike on a potato factory in the country had killed 14 people in 2016. Campaigners accused the then foreign secretary of showing a “total disregard” for Yemeni civilians by allowing the sales, revealed for the first t