Decision to court Huawei is simply the latest of Theresa May’s mistakes
SIR – Theresa May’s decision to allow the Chinese company Huawei to help build our 5G network is the last straw (report, April 24). We should listen to the security warnings from our friends such as the Americans and Australians, who have barred Huawei from supplying key elements of their own telecoms infrastructure.
Mrs May is simply a bad decision maker. She made bad decisions in the Home Office, resulting in the Windrush scandal. She had an election and lost her majority, and she went about negotiations with the EU in the wrong way: she should have had a strong Brexiteer leading the process and should have sought help from business people.
Now she is risking our national security and relationships with the members of the Five Eyes intelligence group. Is she not aware that her decisions will affect us all? Joan Freeland
Colyton, Devon SIR – Mrs May has completely ignored the public vote to leave the EU. Now she overrules objections raised on grounds of national security and allows Huawei to build a 5G network in Britain.
She must be removed from office before she can do any further damage. Philippa Madgwick
Glastonbury, Somerset
SIR – Theresa May’s decision to forge ahead with Huawei against the reservations of senior members of her Cabinet and the advice of some of her security chiefs is just the latest example of her overbearing and anti-collegiate style of government.
She is not a president but a prime minister, and her habit of riding roughshod over her Cabinet colleagues and relying on a small coterie of advisers is a danger to this country. James Miura
Compton Abbas, Dorset
SIR – I used to think that Jeremy Corbyn was a gift to the Conservative Party. How wrong I was. It is Mrs May who is the gift to her opponents. Tom Radcliffe
Rochdale, Lancashire
SIR – While there is no doubt that Mrs May must go, and go quickly, it would be better if she were to resign rather than be forced out. Surely by now she must recognise that she has lost the support of a large majority of Conservative Party members and does not reflect their views. A dignified resignation would be best for her and the party and would prevent disunity.
MPS must understand that any successor to Mrs May must be acceptable to the wider membership. Boris Johnson would be my choice at the moment, but I am prepared to listen to reasoned arguments for other candidates. What I am not prepared to accept is a choice between two candidates selected by MPS, neither of whom is acceptable to the majority of the party membership. Geoffrey Wyartt
Newent, Gloucestershire