Raab defends green light for Huawei 5G infrastructure role
Foreign secretary tells MPs government will introduce strict limits on Chinese firm designated ‘high-risk vendor’
The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has defended the government’s decision to allow the Chinese tech firm Huawei to build non-core elements of the UK’s 5G network, despite designating it a “high-risk vendor”.
US officials had warned against allowing any involvement by Huawei, claiming it posed a security risk.