There were two obviously planted questions at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions. Both were clearly designed to help the government with its very tricky forthcoming decision on Huawei helping build some of the UK’s 5G infrastructure. Both pointed towards the government taking the decision in favour of Huawei, despite American entreaties to the contrary.
The first came early doors in the session, with Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asking:
‘The Conservative manifesto promises in relation to roll out of broadband and mobile phone signal are incredibly welcome, but would my right hon. friend agree that rural constituencies like mine, wherever they are in the United Kingdom, should not be left behind and would he agree with me that these vital technologies should be rolled out and would he set a firm timetable for their roll out?’
Then a little later, Andrew Griffith, the newly-elected Tory MP for Arundel and South Downs, asked this:
‘Investment in super-fast broadband is an excellent way of levelling up the whole of the United Kingdom, of boosting British business and of reducing carbon emissions.
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