BRITAIN is complicit in the recent deaths of scores of children in Yemen and Gaza because it continues to licence billions of pounds’ worth of arms, campaigners said today.

This morning at least 40 people were killed and 60 injured – mostly children – in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a school bus in Saada, Yemen.

Britain has licensed £4.7 billion of arms to Saudi forces since the bombing campaign began in 2015, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).