As Russia carries out new attacks against the people of Ukraine, Boris Johnson is today arriving in Saudi, where 81 people were executed this week for opposing its brutal regime.
The largest mass execution in Saudi’s modern history was on the orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also guilty of the merciless bombing of civilians in Yemen and was implicated in the 2018 assassination of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But the PM was heading this morning to Riyadh to beg bin Salman to increase oil production to help the West wean itself off Russian energy.
