The bitterly disputed decision was reportedly made at a Tuesday meeting of Britain's National Security Council.
A handful of ministers who are seen as likely candidates to replace May were said to have argued passionately against giving China the sensitive role.
British media reported that Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill - the country's most senior civil servant - gave those present an ultimatum until Thursday afternoon to deny responsibility for the leak.Hunt called it"utterly appalling" and Williamson described it as"completely unacceptable".
Finance minister Philip Hammond told a Beijing conference on the Road and Belt Initiative - a project seen by many critics as designed to spread China's economic and political influence worldwide - that the Huawei revelation appeared to be the first of its kind."To my knowledge, there has never been a leak from a National Security Council meeting before," Hammond said.
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