Five ministers who spoke out against the firm are in the frame – and there is a prime suspect
For some time now cabinet meetings might as well have taken place in public. Just on a slight time delay, now that ministers have their phones confiscated on arrival to stop them leaking details of proceedings in real time. But within minutes of them being reunited with their mobiles, trusted journalists are given a full briefing. No detail goes unrecorded. Who quarrelled with whom. Who made a fool of themselves. Who ate the most biscuits. Who had one too many double espressos. Whether the prime minister voiced any opinion on anything.
But while passing on details of the ongoing cabinet-level disagreements over Brexit is now considered fair game – if not a public service – ministers have drawn the line at liveblogging matters of defence and national security. Until now. Moments after Tuesday’s meeting of the National Security Council, at which top military brass and spooks provide intelligence to selected members of the cabinet, had been wrapped up, the Daily Telegraph was running a story on how Theresa May was planning to weaken Britain’s cyber-defences by outsourcing parts of the new 5G network to the Chinese state-controlled tech firm Huawei.
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