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THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) is so keen on selling British weapons to other countries — especially oil-rich Gulf dictatorships — that it has grown a new, powerful arms-sales unit.
Many people assume the MoD’s main duty is running the armed forces for wars and emergencies (like our current Covid-19 crisis), but it is also a keen seller of arms.
This distorts defence policy and means there is an additional pro-arms sales department at the heart of government.
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