Tory ministers approved £2 billion in arms sales to repressive regimes since the last election

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Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt are among recipients

The Government says the UK's arms control regime is one of the strictest in the world, but Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry told The Independent that it needed immediate reforming.

 

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