If Trump brings back torture, can the UK be trusted not to collude in it?

UK agencies passed information to the CIA which resulted in rendition and torture

Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump insisted he would reintroduce torture against terror suspects. In an interview after taking office, he said he “absolutely thinks waterboarding works”, and that “we have to fight fire with fire”.

This puts him at odds with both domestic and international law, and with key members of the US Congress. It also ignores the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), whose exhaustive inquiry into the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) programme concluded that torture (including waterboarding and