Liam Fox Defends Arms Dealers.

In a major speech today Liam Fox is expected to defend Britain's role in arming the world. "We should be proud of the various nasty bits of kit we're willing to sell to the world," he told our reporter ahead of the scheduled speech. "We should also be proud of our human rights record which means we never sell guns to children under the age of eight nor to regimes that lack the legitimacy of democratic support from their various thugs and body guards. Of course you cannot always get it right and we do sometimes sell our engines of death to the wrong people by accident. Sales to Colonel Gadaffi, for instance, were entirely due to our genuinely mistaken belief that he was a closet democrat who longed to free his people from the vile dictatorship he had inadvertantly set up. Of course bribery and corruption continues to be a problem but I personally only take backhanders when its absolutely necessary and I truly believe I can get away with it."