Crispin Blunt is the Conservative MP for Rygate Chair and he was chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2015 to 2017. As part of an MP's panel that went to Saudi Arabia to consider the jail conditions for Saudi women activists, his report concluded that their jail conditions could be akin to torture. He said: 'I have acute anxieties for its future and the implications that has for the region' Madawi Al-Rashid last but not least, our last speaker against the motion.
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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