{"id":22751,"date":"2026-04-17T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:37:19","slug":"labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand \u2018shameful\u2019 Palantir NHS contract be scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should \u2018have their hands ripped off our NHS\u2019, say MPs <\/p>\n<p>MPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its \u00a3330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it \u201cdreadful\u201d and \u201cshameful\u201d in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said it was \u201cno fan\u201d of the US company\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs led the calls for Palantir, which also works for Donald Trump\u2019s ICE immigration crackdown and the Israeli military, to be removed as a supplier to the NHS federated data platform (FDP), with one Labour backbencher, Samantha Niblett, questioning whether it could be \u201ctrusted as a custodian of the intimate health records of tens of millions of British citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/16\/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5beb7fb7cc1d8b2a0d55e6815544565785e9a371\/333_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=82768218c8118e86ad26cef8a26de779\" title=\"Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand \u2018shameful\u2019 Palantir NHS contract be scrapped\" \/>Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should \u2018have their hands ripped off our NHS\u2019, say MPs<br \/>\nMPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its \u00a3330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it \u201cdreadful\u201d and \u201cshameful\u201d in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said it was \u201cno fan\u201d of the US company\u2019s politics.<br \/>\nLabour and Liberal Democrat MPs led the calls for Palantir, which also works for Donald Trump\u2019s ICE immigration crackdown and the Israeli military, to be removed as a supplier to the NHS federated data platform (FDP), with one Labour backbencher, Samantha Niblett, questioning whether it could be \u201ctrusted as a custodian of the intimate health records of tens of millions of British citizens\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should \u2018have their hands ripped off our NHS\u2019, say MPs MPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its \u00a3330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it \u201cdreadful\u201d and \u201cshameful\u201d in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said it was \u201cno fan\u201d of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/labour-and-lib-dem-mps-demand-shameful-palantir-nhs-contract-be-scrapped\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand \u2018shameful\u2019 Palantir NHS contract be scrapped<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}