The UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, on Saturday spoke by phone with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, a fact released by the Saudi side. Details of the call, and whether Doush’s trial was raised, were not revealed.
I wonder if Prince Faisal raised the subject of Julian Foulkes, and if he did, what this bumbling idiot would have had to say...
The case again raises wider issues about Saudi censorship of social media and its use of anti-terrorism laws to suppress free speech. Doush has been represented by the civil rights group Reprieve. In a response to a letter from Reprieve to Lammy concerning the case, a Foreign Office official wrote that “the UK government cannot interfere in another country’s legal processes and must respect their systems, nor can we get British nationals out of jail”.
Hope Lammy paid attention to that. It could turn out to be personally relevant.
I think that Mr Lammy is the government's DEI choice to represent the educationally subnormal.
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