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The news that the sultan of Brunei has made gay sex and adultery into offences punishable by stoning to death has met with silence from Theresa May and only whimpers of dismay from ministers. The Foreign Office, in the same tone that marked its attitude to Hitler during Neville Chamberlain’s premiership, says threatening to remove Brunei from the Commonwealth is not the “best way” to encourage Brunei to uphold its human rights obligations.
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