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The Tory leak of Huawei’s role in the UK’s 5G network confirms that Theresa May’s government is doomed

https://yhoo.it/2DwoETl “We are looking at a more intelligence-led, investigative approach to leaking,” Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, told MPs last December after a torrent of Brexit-related leaks from cabinet meetings. He continued: “Rather than simply treating it incident by incident. I hope we will have a chilling effect … A more intelligence-led assessment approach to identifying patterns, timings, etc, to enable us to have a better chance of identifying the prolific culprits.” Sedwill told the Public Administration Select Committee he was “deeply concerned” by these leaks, saying they undermined the vital principles of collective responsibility: candour, confidentiality and commitment. Surprisingly, he revealed that Theresa May had never asked him to launch a leak inquiry, though said he had done so on his own account. Sedwill’s new approach has not exactly proved a roaring success. He is in the thick of it after this week’s spectacular leak of the National Security Council’s decision to allow the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to provide non-core parts of the UK’s 5G mobile phone network. The group, chaired by May and comprised of cabinet ministers, intelligence and security chiefs, is the most sensitive inner sanctum in the government machine. On the Richter scale of leaks, the revelation to The Daily Telegraph is an 11.

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