{"id":601075,"date":"2026-05-24T07:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:43:46","slug":"london-mayor-putting-politics-over-safety-palantir-uk-boss-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601075\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor putting &#8216;politics over safety&#8217; Palantir UK boss says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palantir, founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, a prominent donor to US President Donald Trump, already holds contracts with other UK public sector bodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City Hall has raised concerns about value for money. It is also understood Sir Sadiq intends to speak to the government about whether a company&#8217;s ethics should be taken into account during procurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mosley told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/radio\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times Radio, external<\/a>: &#8220;Not allowing the Metropolitan Police to have this software will give hostile states and criminals an advantage. It&#8217;ll mean they cannot put more officers on the front line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the mayor is putting politics over public safety. He talks about values, but I think what Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Business Secretary Peter Kyle, speaking on the same programme, said Sir Sadiq needed to &#8220;set out the reasons&#8221; for his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We need to have more British AI companies that can do those kinds of things, which is why I&#8217;ve taken equity stakes in British AI firms and British tech firms, so that we can scale them up much, much faster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palantir, founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, a prominent donor to US President Donald Trump, already holds contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}