Rebel Tory MPs along with government ministers have planned to introduce an amendment aimed at blocking the world's largest IT telecoms provider from building British 5G infrastructure. The news comes as US officials place further pressure on London to block the Chinese telecom giant as talks are set to take place on a future US-UK trade deal.
Eight ‘rebel' Conservative MPs have tabled an amendment urging the UK government to remove and ban all equipment from Huawei Technologies in the nation's mobile network infrastructure by the end of 2022, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The group, including four Cabinet ministers, is being led by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson, David Davis and Damian Green who are gambling on the move, despite needing 44 votes to block UK prime minister Boris Johnson's Commons majority.
The amendment is set to be introduced next week in line with the UK's telecommunications infrastructure bill, but may not be effective as it only applies to leasehold property owners failing to respond to telecom providers, but could lead to further clashes in future decisions on Huawei later this year, the Guardian reported.
It proposes that telecoms network operators should not use any equipment supplied by “high risk vendors” designated by the National Cyber Security Centre, despite the NCSC failing to specifically name Huawei.
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