Boris Johnson’s new director of communications lobbied No 10’s chief of staff on behalf of Huawei shortly before the Chinese telecoms giant was excluded from the UK’s security-sensitive 5G network, it has been confirmed.
Leaked minutes of a 2020 meeting, obtained by The Sun, show that Guto Harri asked whether there were ministers he could “nudge” to preserve the company’s role in the hi-tech project, which was then subject to a security service review.
