US senator urges UK to follow Biden in curbing arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Chris Murphy, key opponent of Saudi war in Yemen, says UK and US should not be interested in perpetuating war crimes'

A leading voice in the US Congress against the Saudi war in Yemen has called on the UK to follow in the Biden administration's footsteps and end offensive weapons sales to the kingdom, saying Britain ought not to have any greater interest in perpetuating war crimes" than the US does.

Senator Chris Murphy, an influential Democrat on the foreign relations committee, told the Guardian that he believed the Biden administration was poised to continue using arms sales as a lever in its relationship with the Saudi government, in addition to the ban on offensive weapons sales for use in Yemen it has already announced.