July 24, 2026 | Foreign Podicy

Britain’s New PM and Yemen’s Old Houthis

July 24, 2026 Foreign Podicy

Britain’s New PM and Yemen’s Old Houthis

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Two places we need to watch carefully right now: the United Kingdom, which has just installed its seventh prime minister in a decade, and Yemen, where the Houthi rebels have declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia and resumed strikes on tankers transiting the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Edmund Fitton-Brown, FDD senior fellow and former British ambassador to Yemen, joins Cliff May on FDD’s Foreign Podicy to discuss the new government in Blighty and what’s driving the Houthis on the Arabian Peninsula.

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