Minister defends UK's approach to Saudi human rights record

Tobias Ellwood says ‘change cannot happen overnight’ in Saudi Arabia and freedom there ‘needs to move at a pace acceptable to its society’Saudi Arabia’s attitude to human rights cannot be changed overnight, the government’s minister for the Middle East has claimed, arguing that any progress would need to “move at a pace that is acceptable to [the country’s] society”.Tobias Ellwood, who is parliamentary under-secretary of state for foreign and