PM: Yemen action was taken in self-defence
Rishi Sunak says that UK strikes on Houthi military targets in Yemen were in "in self-defence".
Speaking to the House of Commons, the prime minister added that it was a "necessary and a proportionate response to a direct threat to the UK vessels, therefore to the UK itself."
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