Foreign minister says no evidence to support sanctions against Latifa’s father despite ‘troubling’ footage

Britain wants to see proof a missing Emirati princess is “alive and well” but will not impose sanctions against her father, the ruler of Dubai, because the evidence did not support it, the UK’s foreign secretary has said.

Dominic Raab said new videos of Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum in which she said she was being held against her will by her father were “very troubling”.

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