The revelation that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new communications chief Guto Harri lobbied Number 10 on behalf of Chinese telecoms firm Huawei raised concerns among MPs, but Downing Street insisted that the lobbying was “within the rules.” Harri, a former BBC journalist who served as Johnson’s spokesman and chief of staff during his first term as London mayor, was named on Feb. 5 as the prime minister’s new director of communications. The Sun newspaper reported the following day that Harri, who had been working for lobbying firm Hawthorn Advisors, was “directly involved” in talks with senior officials in 2020 trying to persuade the government not to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G networks. In response to the report, the prime minister’s official spokesman said on Feb. 8: “My understanding is that there was a meeting that took place with Huawei and Number 10 officials. That is within the rules, obviously …