{"id":1277899,"date":"2022-02-07T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277899"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:23:48","slug":"boris-johnsons-woke-communications-chief-lobbied-for-chinas-huawei-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boris-johnsons-woke-communications-chief-lobbied-for-chinas-huawei-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson&#039;s &#039;Woke&#039; Communications Chief Lobbied for China\u2019s Huawei: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboris-johnsons-woke-communications-chief-lobbied-for-chinas-huawei-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1277899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238260167-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s newly installed head of communications reportedly lobbied the government on behalf of controversial Chinese tech company Huawei.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Guto Harri,&nbsp;a <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9794391\/GB-News-presenter-Guto-Harri-condemned-bosses-took-knee-live-air.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">former<\/a> BBC journalist and ex-presenter for GB News \u2014 who left the station after controversially taking the knee for BLM on live television \u2014 announced that he had resigned from his post with lobbying firm Hawthorn Advisers to once again direct communications for Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister is looking to reset the political narrative after months of scandals surrounding apparent breaches of the lockdown measures his government created.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the new spin doctor has become a source of controversy himself, with Brexit leader Nigel Farage sarcastically writing: \u201cA woke Remainer is just what Boris needs in Number 10!\u201d in reference to Harri\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure that Tory voters will be thrilled to know that Guto Harri has been working for Hawthorn\u2026 who lobby for Huawei,\u201d Farage <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/1490309612599676930\">added<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after the Brexiteer\u2019s comments, <em>The Sun<\/em> newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/17566118\/boris-johnson-guto-harri-huawei\/\">reported<\/a> that Harri had a \u201chands-on role\u201d in lobbying the government on behalf of the Chinese telecom during his time at Hawthorn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sources close to the spin doctor said that his work on behalf of Huawei \u2014 which has been described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669\">effectively state-owned<\/a>\u201d by the communist regime \u2014 should not be of concern considering its role in providing 3G and 4G coverage in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the government decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/07\/14\/uk-bans-new-huawei-5g-equipment-from-2021-full-ban-from-5g-by-2027\/\">ban Huawei<\/a> from the country\u2019s 5G networks by 2027 in light of concerns raised by the Trump administration that the company has embedded \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669\">backdoor access<\/a>\u201d into its technology, and therefore is a potential espionage threat.<\/p>\n<p>A Downing Street source said of Harri: \u201cThis is separate to his new role in No10. This Government is committed to removing Huawei from UK 5G networks by 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harri rose to national attention last summer after infamously carrying out the Black Lives Matter performative gesture of \u201ctaking the knee\u201d in response to alleged football racism while he was presenting live on GB News, leading to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/16\/so-called-anti-woke-news-network-has-zero-viewers-host-takes-blm-knee\/\">ratings crash<\/a> for the upstart \u201canti-woke\u201d news network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A woke Remainer is just what Boris needs in Number 10! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dm34KXB0r1\">pic.twitter.com\/dm34KXB0r1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nigel_Farage\/status\/1490039760924155914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The left-wing Labour Party has nonetheless criticised Harri\u2019s connections to China, with a spokesman telling the paper: \u201cWe can\u2019t have the revolving door from lobbying to Government see potential \u00adnational security issues arise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deputy leader Angela Rayner added: \u201cWe need full transparency from Guto Harri about all contact he had with Government in his \u00adformer role and who his clients were.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Labour Party has itself been embroiled in scandal surrounding its own connections to the murderous regime in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The security service MI5 revealed last month that an alleged spy for the Chinese Communist Party, Christine Lee, had donated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/14\/labour-party-accepted-700000-from-alleged-chinese-spy-report\/\">hundreds of thousands of pounds<\/a> sterling to Labour MP Barry Gardiner, an acolyte of far-left former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p>Guto Harri is also far from unique amongst the British elite in having deep ties to China, or indeed Huawei itself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;former head of the BT Group (formerly British Telecom) Sir Michael Rake, for example,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/technology\/sir-mike-rake-steps-down-from-huawei-uk-board\/ar-BB1dKRmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">served on the board<\/a> of Huawei from 2019 until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huawei.com\/en\/news\/2015\/03\/hw_415000\">establishment figures<\/a>, such as former CEO of British Petroleum (BP) Lord John Browne, civil servant Sir Andrew Cahn, and former chancellor of the University of Southampton, Dame Helen Alexander have all advised the Chinese company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Money, Money, Money!\u2019 \u2014 Farage Accuses British Elites of Covering up Chinese Takeover <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BsrbGTnRM4\">https:\/\/t.co\/BsrbGTnRM4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1365670271068246017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Relations between China and the UK have soured over Beijing\u2019s brutal crackdown in the former British colony of Hong Kong, which the UK has asserted violates the terms of the S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/01\/01\/22-years-later-how-china-destroyed-legacy-hong-kong-handover\/\">ino-British Joint Declaration<\/a> which promised the city freedom from communist rule for fifty years following the Hong Kong Handover in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was further strained following the CCP\u2019s decision to sanction British lawmakers for highlighting the \u201cgenocide\u201d against the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite all of this, the UK\u2019s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak is reportedly looking to reset relations in order to increase trade with China.<\/p>\n<p>Though the communist state has been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/01\/13\/beyond-orwells-imaginings-chinese-communist-party-attacking-all-human-rights-claims-uks-conservative-party-human-rights-commission\/\">using slave labour<\/a> to manufacture its products at a cheaper cost than the West, Sunak will look to make a \u201ccomplete sea change\u201d in relations at an upcoming UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue summit, <em>The Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2022\/01\/29\/rishi-sunak-bids-reset-china-relations-boost-trade\/\">reported<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p>While Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have ruffled feathers in Zhongnanhai with his decision to ban Huawei, the Tory leader has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/22\/fervent-sinophile-boris-johnson-pushes-for-china-trade-deal-despite-genocide-objections\/\">consistently sought friendly relations<\/a> with China in an apparent bid for a large-scale post-Brexit trade deal with the communist country.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s newly installed head of communications reportedly lobbied the government on behalf of controversial Chinese tech company Huawei. 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