‘Thriving off conflict’: UK is world’s second largest arms seller

‘Britain continues to sell arms to countries that commit human rights abuses and is now ranked second in the world for weapons sales, a report shows.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) found the UK was second only to the United States in selling weapons in 2014.

Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems, is the world’s third largest seller of weapons with over $25.7 billion in sales last year.’