UK LAWMAKERS CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT OVER ‘HIGH RISK' HUAWEI

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government narrowly defeated an attempt led by some of its own lawmakers to ban China’s Huawei from building part of the U.K.’s high-speed telecommunications network.

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Three dozen Conservative lawmakers backed a call to bar “high risk” firms such as Huawei from any involvement in the network after 2022.

The move, which came in an amendment to a telecoms bill, was defeated by 306 votes to 282 in the House of Commons, where the Conservatives have an 80-seat majority. Some 36 Tories rebelled.

Britain angered the United States when it announced in January that it would let Huawei supply parts of its next-generation cellular networks, known as 5G.