Theresa May has sacked Gavin Williamson as Secretary of State for Defence following a civil service inquiry into the leak of information that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei will be allowed to build parts of the United Kingdom’s new 5G infrastructure to the Telegraph.
May cited both the findings of the inquiry and his behaviour during that inquiry for his sacking, which ends his frontbench career after a meteoric three-year rise, from the lowly post of bagcarrier under David Cameron in 2016, to May’s first Chief Whip and then to Defence Secretary.
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