London - British police said they will not
probe a leak of information about Chinese telecoms company
Huawei that cost Gavin Williamson his job as defence
minister this week, as no criminal offence was committed.
Williamson strenuously denied being responsible for the
leak, but May said she had lost confidence in him, after the
Daily Telegraph newspaper reported discussions from within
Britain's National Security Council.
"I am satisfied that what was disclosed did not contain
information that would breach the Official Secrets Act,"
Britain's top counter-terrorism police officer, Metropolitan
Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, said on Saturday.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Britain's Defence Minister Gavin Williamson attend a multilateral meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Georgia and Ukraine, during the NATO summit in Brussels last year. File picture: Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
"The leak did not cause damage to the public interest at a
level at which it would be necessary to engage misconduct in a
public office. It would be inappropriate to carry out a police
investigation in these circumstances."