Boris Johnson vowed not to involve Huawei in Britain’s 5G telecommunications networks if it compromised the country’s ability to work with close security allies, including the US, after he was lobbied on the issue by Donald Trump.
The US president announced at a Nato summit outside London that he believed the involvement of the Chinese telecoms company posed “a security danger”, adding that he had raised the issue with a number of countries.
“I spoke to Italy and they look like they are not going to go forward with that,” he said. “I spoke to other countries, they are not going to go forward. Everybody I’ve spoken to is not going to go forward.”