In December, the British government adopted in law the UN’s arms trade treaty, which binds governments to stop arms transfers if there is a risk of breaches of international humanitarian law or human rights law.
Despite that, British weapons have been supplied to Saudi-led savage attacks in Yemen, fanning the flames of conflict and escalating humanitarian crisis as well as possibly being in breach of arms sales laws.
Meanwhile, the remarks attributed to a serving British military rank in an edition of Sunday Times contained no so veiled threat of a military rebellion in the event of Corbyn led Labour Government exercising its legitimate power.