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Welcome to Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm Frazier Nelson.

Is it time to bring Saudi Arabia back from the cold?

It's reforming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been the apple of Boris Johnson's eye,

pushing through the kinds of reforms in Saudi society that people thought they would never

live to see, but then five years ago the murder of Jamal Khashoggi changed all that.

There is a new fraudure between Britain, America and Saudi Arabia,

but isn't our time to forgive and to rekindle relations?

Number 10 is confirmed that the Crown Prince is going to be invited over on an official visit.

It seems as if we've gone from giving him a cold shoulder to rolling out the red carpet.

Is that too much too soon?

Joe Eddick Bell has written a piece for Coffee House saying perhaps it is a bit too

prant due principles can't wear nothing, he says.

He joins me now along with Simon Mail, who's a former deputy chief with Defence staff

and a Middle East advisor in the Ministry of Defence.

Joe Edd, you won't need me to tell you the strategic importance of Saudi Arabia.

It's a massive power broker in the country.

It was hosting Ukraine talks.

Recently it happens to be an oil superpower at the time when we're trying to win

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