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By Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve
\n4 October 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, the Prime Minister, Theresa May, said she intended to \u2018build an outwards looking Britain\u2019, and act as a \u2018moral lead in the world\u2019.<\/p>\n

Surely the most audacious comedy moment in Theresa May\u2019s speech was not the P45 skit, but her claim to be a ‘moral lead in the world.<\/p>\n

She was describing a Government that has trained Saudi secret police in techniques for hacking activists\u2019 phones, paid for guards in Bahrain\u2019s notorious torture prison, and given unconditional support to Donald Trump\u2019s devastating drone campaign in Yemen.<\/p>\n

After entering the Foreign Office in 2011 William Hague endorsed a more ‘open and transparent’ approach to aiding regimes which carry out abuses, but Mrs May has squandered this legacy and instead sought to prop up dodgy dictatorships in secret.<\/p>\n

Read more…<\/h3>\n

Britain\u2019s cash and Bahrain\u2019s firing squads \u2013 5 things we\u2019ve learned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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