Palantir’s Ex-Labour Hire Lobbied UK Weeks Before Deal Win

Bloomberg Politics6 November 2026, 16:59 UTCUnited Kingdom

Palantir Technologies Inc.’s newest UK executive, a former deputy leader of the governing Labour Party, lobbied the nation’s health minister to argue that the US data firm would strengthen Britain’s tech industry, just weeks before it secured an extension to a controversial new contract.

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