The United States simply can no longer afford to look the other way on Saudi double-dealing.

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Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".

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He is furious with what he sees as Russian double-dealing.

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