Huawei is a risk so Britain must change course on 5G, ex-MI6 spymaster says

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Huawei is a risk so Britain must change course on 5G, ex-MI6 spymaster says

Hopes possible new PM rethinks policy.

China's Huawei poses such a grave security risk to the United Kingdom that the government must not allow it to have even a limited role in building 5G networks, a former head of Britain's MI6 foreign spy service said on Thursday. In what some have compared to the Cold War arms race, the US is ...

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