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The Government of the UK refused to reveal the details of the meeting between US billionaire Peter Thiel and former minister because it could hurt “diplomatic relations” between Britain and the USA.
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The United Kingdom’s Business and Trade Department told the Financial Times that he would not publish the entire meeting notes because they include information about “Peter Thiela’s attitudes approach an approach to an important issue of politics”.
“The detection of detained data could prejudice diplomatic relations because the edition would undermine trust and trust in a foreign government lawsuit[s] place on UK“The department said this week in response to a request for freedom of information.
He added that discovering “could potentially prejudice relations in the UK with us.”
The Government has published strongly redescated meetings and agenda in response to a request to detect FT. The newsrooms were made on the basis of exemption for transparency laws that usually be called in relation to communication between public bodies in the UK and other countries, international organizations or “organs of other countries”.
The government’s attitude will ask questions about the nature of Thiel role in the Government of the UK.
The German born Thiel, the chairman of the Paulantir Analysis S Thiel refused to donate his campaign for a re -choice.
The conservative libertarian, Thiel hired Vance for some time at his risk capital valley company and was key to the rise to the White House.
Thiel companies faced or supported, such as Palanti and Andarila-Commopania for defense technology-have been significant government contracts on both sides of the Atlantic in areas such as health and defense.
Palantar won over $ 2.7 billion in US contracts since 2009, including more than $ 1.3 billion in Pentagon contracts, according to federal records, and exploited a a the executive door of the executive which moved between the company and high positions in Washington and Westminster.
In the UK, Palantir won contracts worth up to half a billion pounds, including a contract with the National Health Service for Patient Data Management.
Unknown parts of the meeting documents show that Johnson intended to deal with Thiel’s concern about the lack of approach to Palantir’s defense in the European market and the inclusion of the UK as a “world destination and an incubator for venture finanthropy”.
Palantir received a contract of £ 75 million with the Ministry of Defense in December 2022.
Thiel expressed pessimism because of the economy in the UK, citing high taxes, low growth and “the fact that growth is initiated by real estate, not innovation such as technology,” one of the documents said.
The meeting served to “develop a relationship” with Thiela, who was called the founder Thiel Capital, his investment company, according to the Brifinian notes prepared for Johnson, which were entitled “Bilaterally with Peter Thiela.”
Justifying the detained parts, the business department said the exchanges between Thiel and Johnson happened “in the immediate period” before the incoming presidential administration in the “very sensitive time” for US politics and for relations in the UK.
At the time of the meeting, the US elections were eight months.
DBT said he “fulfilled his obligations under the Law on Freedom of Information, and the information was retained in accordance with the law.”
The Thiela spokesman did not respond to FT’s request whether Thiel had a mandate at any time to act as a representative of the interests of the US government, election candidates or political parties.
