I am profoundly anxious about what may now happen in Saudi Arabia. And I think we should be bending every effort to try and get Saudi Arabia back onto a track towards progress that is both economic progress and also social progress. The problem for policymakers is if you can't power on the moral high ground and you absorb your self of responsibility so what follows, you may then have to cope with what is going to follow because you've taken that option. It is in many ways it would be the easy thing to do to say that we should cut all ties and have nothing more to do with them. But then we have nothing moreto do with the consequences which will follow. That's not very bad
In this week's episode of the Sunday debate we go back to 2019. In the aftermath of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul we brought together leading experts to debate how the West should respond to the abrasive crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
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