Senior Conservative MPs will next week try to pass a law to ensure that the UK’s telecoms networks, including 5G mobile phone infrastructure, do not contain any Huawei equipment after 2022.
The move comes after Boris Johnson in January decided to grant the Chinese telecoms equipment maker a limited role in supplying kit for the UK’s 5G networks, although it proposed confining Huawei’s market share to 35 per cent.
Some Conservative MPs fear that allowing Huawei any role in critical UK infrastructure will compromise national security — echoing US concerns that Beijing could be using the Chinese company’s equipment to spy on other countries.
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