Boris Johnson plans Saudi Arabia visit to seek oil supply increase

Concerns that PM may limit media scrutiny of trip as Tory MP secures urgent question over mass execution by regime

Boris Johnson is expected to visit Saudi Arabia to push for an increase in oil output despite an outcry over the regime's biggest ever mass execution and growing fears the prime minister may try to limit media scrutiny of the trip.

Downing Street would not confirm Johnson's likely trip to Riyadh, but sources have said he wants to appeal to the Gulf state to increase its oil output to replace supplies from Russia.