that the repeated threats from Trump and his allies have "irritated" Johnson's administration, which has been strongly advised by the UK security services that the deal would not intelligence at risk.
Johnson's administration is annoyed that the Trump administration has lobbied so publicly against the deal without suggesting any viable alternatives to it. whether he would allow the Huawei deal to go ahead, Johnson told the BBC that "the British public deserves access to the best possible technology."The UK Justice Secretary Robert Buckland, indicated on BBC Radio 4 that the UK government would not be pressured into dropping the deal.
Washington has repeatedly lobbied Boris Johnson's government heavily to reverse the decision. It is concerned that Huawei will act as a Trojan horse for China's spy agencies, planting "backdoors" into equipment it installs in Britain and collecting intelligence to relay back to Beijing.
The arrangement could also have an impact on the UK-US free trade deal which Boris Johnson is eager to sign by the end of 2020. In an unprecedented move over the weekend, Three Republican senators — Tom Cotton, John Cornyn, and Marco Rubio — also wrote to Britain's National Security Council urging Huawei to be banned from the 5G rollout.They said it would be "in the best interest of the United Kingdom, the US-UK special relationship, and the health and wellbeing of a well-functioning market for 5G technologies to exclude Huawei.
UK would also be upsetting $aapl shareholders.
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