In a scenario unimaginable just seven months ago, Johnson has shelved his ambitions to roll out 5G faster than rival nations, conceded that there is a cost to ensuring national security | latikambourke
in Canberra.
"They have also seen the commencement of the removal of a service provider whose presence provided a national security threat to Great Britain." All this means a final advance cannot be ruled out when the bill is put to the House of Commons, anytime from September but the rebels should not underestimate the size of their victory.
This did not have to be a humiliation; voters don’t miss what they don’t have and a £2 billion cost several years down the track is intangible in a climate where governments are shovelling tens of billions of dollars out of the door to prop up jobs ahead of the recession.
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