THE latest rebrand of UK foreign policy is ‘Global Britain’.

The foreign secretary made clear it was about ‘committing ourselves to the peace and prosperity of the world’.

A ‘Global Britain’ is one which ‘can do good for the world in the projection of our values’.

Some of these values were handily set out in the Foreign Office’s annual human rights report.

They include torture prevention, supporting the global abolition of the death penalty, championing of civil society, supporting an international arms trade treaty and much more besides.

Recently when Mrs May and the foreign secretary travelled around to sell Britain to the world there should have been one business arrangement that was immediately suspended – the sale of UK arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used to carry out yet more atrocities in Yemen.

Have we forgotten that once we championed arms control regulation?

Dare we ask our government, ‘How many Yemenis need to die before we stop selling arms?’ I won’t list all the transgressions of the Saudi regime but they must violate every one of those values that we wish to project around the world – torture, death penalty, freedom of expression and women’s rights to name a few.

Members of the Warrington Amnesty Group believe that arms trade deals should be suspended while a full enquiry takes place and we all agree that indiscriminate arms sales are not conducive with the kind of values we want at the heart of our ‘Global Britain’.

No more death and destruction from UK made bombs.

EVELYN KINSELLA Appleton