Parliament will return to work next week for a brief session before conference season begins, yet its members are already finding concerning ways to spend their time. In a confidential email sent earlier this month, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates Sulaiman Almazroul invited MPs and peers to attend a private meeting with the UAE’s foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan.
Roundtables with foreign leaders are not unusual, but this one follows a damning report released by the United Nations last week implicating the UAE and Saudi Arabia in human rights violations and war crimes arising from their invasion of Yemen.
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