Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson sacked over Huawei leak | UK
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48126974
Gavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.
Downing Street said the PM had "lost confidence in his ability to serve" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.
The inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.
Mr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, continues to deny leaking the information.
In a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided "compelling evidence" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.
In a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: "No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified."
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I'm a lot more concerned about the possibility of Chinese governmental influence basically being welcomed into any part of our infrastructure, than someone leaking that it's even being considered. How convenient that it's the defence secretary who's taking the fall for it - I imagine given his job, he isn't too thrilled about the entire thing given that even the US has basically told huawei to fuck off. I do wonder what our mate theresa and her scum bastard cohorts are getting out of it.
Its hard to say if this was intentional on Williamson's part seeing as his entire time as defense secretary has been characterized by utter incompetence and inability to do the job, he just got it because it was basically the only person available at the time that would take it.
Its entirely possible this was the governments plan and this human disaster just split the beans by accident.
Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it really. It was a bit silly of me to ascribe any level of integrity to a tory politician
Honestly I'm not surprised, he's always had that sort of gung-ho sod it attitude to go alongside it.
He was the one going out and talking about the army using Drone "swarm squadrons" and converting cargo ships into support vessels but had no idea on where the funding would come from and appears to have come up with the plans from a dream he had the night before.
Gavin Williamson's a wanker, I'm not surprised it was him
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