{"slug": "london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules", "title": "London mayor Sadiq Khan accuses Palantir of bypassing procurement rules", "summary": "Lawyers for London Mayor Sadiq Khan have accused the Metropolitan Police of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir Technologies Inc. on a £50 million AI and data analysis contract, which Palantir challenged in the High Court in June after Khan's deputy mayor refused to approve it.", "body_md": "LONDON — Lawyers working on behalf of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have accused the capital’s police force of breaching procurement rules by working with Palantir to award the U.S. tech giant a closely watched police contract.\n\nThe case follows [concerns expressed by multiple parliamentary committees](https://www.politico.eu/article/drop-palantir-from-nhs-mps-tell-minister) about the U.K.’s dependence on foreign technology firms such as Palantir, which was co-founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.\n\nThe tech firm brought a claim against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in the High Court in June after Khan’s deputy mayor refused to sign off on a £50 million contract with the Metropolitan Police for the provision of an AI and data analysis service.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules", "canonical_source": "https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-police-palantir-legal-case-bypassing-procurement-rules/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication", "published_at": "2026-07-31 16:17:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 18:11:27.442204+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Sadiq Khan", "Palantir Technologies Inc.", "Metropolitan Police", "Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime", "Alex Karp", "Peter Thiel"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-accuses-palantir-of-bypassing-procurement-rules.jsonld"}}