Watch live as Sunak updates MPs on Houthi strikes in Yemen

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Watch live as Rishi Sunak delivers an announcement on recent strikes towards Yemen’s Houthis.

The newest spherical of UK and allied strikes towards Houthi targets was designed to “send the clearest possible message” to the rebels that assaults on cargo ships are “unacceptable”, international secretary David Cameron stated.

Britain joined the US in finishing up a recent set of joint air strikes in Yemen in response to the rebels focusing on worldwide delivery alongside very important Red Sea and Gulf of Aden commerce routes.

Lord Cameron stated UK armed forces will “continue to degrade” the Houthis’ skill to hold out assaults as lengthy as their “completely indiscriminate” marketing campaign of harassment in the Middle East continues.

London and Washington focused insurgent websites in a single day on 11-12 January, with additional US assaults in latest days.

Mr Sunak is about to replace MPs throughout an look in the House of Commons on Tuesday.