He is totally refuting the charge and saying that TM has got the wrong man.
That cuts out several cabinet members.
It has, however, reopened the debate and it seems very strange that the UK has come to a different conclusion than both the USA and Australia
This could have a serious effect on our ability to share security matters with both of these countries.
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Any man that swears to something “on his childrens’ lives” is despicable. I imagine his stock with his children will take a long time to recover from their father’s staking their lives against his sordid reputation.
He had a 12 minute off the record conversation with a journalist (which he admits) immediately after the meeting but denies talking about the Huawei deal - yeah, right.
Even if he didn’t leak he deserves to be sacked for gross stupidity.
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If you were to sack every minister for gross stupidity, who would be left to run the country
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The prior question is surely “Is anybody running the country?” 
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Basically, no - but that’s worked for the Italians for donkey’s years.
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That is how the system works.
Politicians do it all the time.
He is no different from any of the others.
TM should come clean with what she says has on him.
Do you really trust her judgement?
A Daily Telegraph journalist spoke to Williamson in some weird code that journos and politicians use so he did not actually break the official secrets act but he gave enough away to warrant/allow the paper to publish the story, I guess this is why Williamson is claiming his innocence and the police are not likely to get involved.
TM has closed the subject.
The Star Chamber is alive and well in Downing Street.
We must have both heard the interview on Today.
I’ve been reading about how journalists get their stories and it’s unbelievable just how much chaos they can cause.
I think that Gavin Williamson, no relation, deserves to have a proper investigation and the opportunity to clear his name.
There is mileage in this story.
TM is a walking disaster of her own making.
No sympathy for the guy, he’s the Defence Secretary with designs on being PM so he was bloody stupid to talk to a journo straight after the meeting, he must have realised a story could come out.
Of course he knew. That was his intention, to smear her as some kind of commie fellow-traveller of the yellow peril regime. And thus boost his right-wing credentials with knuckle-grazers and neo-fascist loonies.
His keep-out-of-jail card was the journalistic ethic of protecting sources, so the journo couldn’t snitch. Job done.
And putting his children’s lives in the scale of knightly honour of his reputation was the final Wagnerian flourish. What a turd. 
Parliament is so inefficient it needs to be privatised.
Oh hang on it already is, they all have their own interests at heart.
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The head of Ericsson said on the today Programme that their products could be substituted for Huawei with a minimum of problems.
Asked about their components being made in China, he said that they had instituted a programme of retrenchment from china.
I dare say Nokia will say the same.
Over a barrel most people will say anything the men with rubber truncheons and red hot pincers want to hear. 
“BT’s chief technology and information officer, Howard Watson said it was “logically impossible” to remove all of the Huawei equipment from the company’s networks within a three year period”
That says it all, Huawei is already far too embedded in the West’s telco infrastructures. Sooner they are out the better IMO. It takes quite a bit of incompetence and a very dodgy procurement policy that ends up with the customer being dependent on the supplier. Any sensible company has had a multivendor (including redundancy) approach for decades. If BT had done their job it is should be possible to turn off ALL Huawei gear tomorrow without any impact on the network.
Though this % business is stupid. They could have only 5% of the equipment but still control the network. It’s not how much they have but how critical what they have is. No problem with them having a significant % of non critical and non data sensitive equipment.
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That’s where it all, started Jane. US (and other) companies chasing cheap labour and turning a blind eye to the Chinese stealing their intellectual property.
Wall Street, quarterly earnings and executive share options coming home to roost. The Buck rules everything the US does and they’ve managed to spread that illness far and wide.
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