I don’t think it would be quite right to suspend licences, for example, that the Israelis could use in relation to the Houthis, that Israel may need to use in relation to the challenges it has with other proxies in the area. I think that would be a mistake. It would lead to a wider war and an escalation that we here in the UK are committed to stopping, so I’m afraid I disagree with that position.

The Americans are hypocrites. […] They'll be talking of freedom of speech to the world. But they're the ones who are destroying the freedom of speech. They don't even know what that word "freedom of speech" means. Sputnik and its parent company [Rossiya Segodnya] are one of the biggest media companies in the world, who are disseminating the correct information to the world. And they don't want that to happen. They only want their own version of information, which is disinformation and a poison to the world.