Llewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests Harry Davies, Henry Dyer and Pippa Crerar 8 September 2025 #SupportTheGuardian

Revealed: how Boris Johnson tr...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Explainer What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

What are the Boris Files and w...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned Paul Lewis Head of investigations and Pippa Crerar Political editor #TheBorisFiles Boris Johnson 8 September 2025

What are the Boris Files and w...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The data shines a spotlight on Johnson’s commercial interests since he left Downing Street in September 2022.

What are the Boris Files and w...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... It reveals how the former Conservative leader is using the relationships he forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. He appears to be doing so via his private office, which is subsidised by the public."

What are the Boris Files and w...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn Pritchard
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Paul Lewis, Pippa Crerar 8 September 2025 #JohnsonLies #COVIDLies #UkraineLies #CorruptToryGovernmentLies #RussianGateLies #LebedevLies #PartygateLies #AfghanLies #JohnsonCoverUpLies #BrexitLies #1.5CLies #ClimateLies #ClimateCriminal #PeopleDie #JailTime
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Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

Johnson and Cummings’ secret m...
Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Boris Johnson appears to have had a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of the controversial US data firm Palantir,

Johnson and Cummings’ secret m...
Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... the year before it was given a role at the heart of the UK’s pandemic response. Rowena Mason and Henry Dyer 8 September 2025 #BorisFiles Boris Johnson #JohnsonLies #PeopleDie #JailTime

Johnson and Cummings’ secret m...
Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked.

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Extract "Labour should halt public contracts with the US tech company Palantir, opposition politicians have said, amid growing concern at the lack of government transparency over dealings with the company and Peter Mandelson.

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Since 2023, Palantir has secured more than £500m in contracts with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence (MoD), while it employed Global Counsel, the lobbying firm founded by Mandelson.

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Emails released by the US Department of Justice show Mandelson sought help from Jeffrey Epstein to find “rich individuals” as clients.

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Peter Mandelson Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn The government has for months blocked attempts by MPs and campaigners to scrutinise Palantir’s deals.

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Requests for information about meetings between the company’s leadership with Keir Starmer and the former prime minister Boris Johnson were among those that have been refused." Robert Booth UK technology editor 5 February 2026

Calls to halt UK Palantir cont...
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals

Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to probe deals blocked

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn "Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information" Robert Booth and Dan Sabbagh 4 February 2026

Mandelson’s links with US tech...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn

Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

The Guardian
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK,

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... Extracts: "The Rise of Palantir Under Boris Johnson Meanwhile, as well as funding various political projects in the UK and US (including being the source of the fund owned by Vice President JD Vance)

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... Peter Thiel also has extensive interests in British Government contracts.

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... The relationship seems to have begun at the outset of Boris Johnson’s premiership. Within weeks of entering Number 10, and on the same day he tried to unlawfully prorogue Parliament on 28 August,

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings met Thiel at Number 10. The meeting was not entered into the official transparency logs, but surfaced years later when internal documents were leaked to The Guardian

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... and shared with transparency activists at Distributed Denial of Secrets. The encounter took place just months before the pandemic, at a time when Cummings was championing the role of data-driven firms in Government.

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... It was also the same period when his former preferred Vote Leave data company, Faculty AI, was beginning to win contracts in Whitehall. By 2020, Palantir would become a central player in the UK Government’s response to COVID-19.

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... The pandemic proved a turning point. Palantir was awarded an initial NHS contract for just £1 — a mechanism that allowed the company to integrate into health data systems at virtually no cost, before the deal expanded.

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardFeb 8
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p... Between 2020 and 2022, as Byline Times first reported, Palantir secured around £60 million in pandemic-related contracts.

From Epstein to Starmer: Mappi...
From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK

The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes

Byline Times