Gavin Williamson 'strenuously' denies leaking National Security Council discussions on the tech company.
British Prime Minister Theresa May fired her defense minister on Wednesday over a leak of discussions in the National Security Council about Chinese telecoms company Huawei, the latest of her allies to be ousted from government.
“No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified,” she added after putting the “latest information from the investigation” to Williamson earlier on Wednesday. “I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.”
Many in the Conservative Party felt his promotion to defence minister was little more than a prize for his role as whip, which included brokering a deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to prop up May’s government. Opposition parties called for a criminal investigation into the leak, with the main opposition Labor Party describing the Conservative government as chaotic and “incapable of sorting out their own crisis”.
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