{"id":23207,"date":"2026-05-22T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:37:29","slug":"palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after \u00a350m contract with Met police blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London mayor accused of \u2018putting politics above public safety\u2019 for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/22\/andy-burnham-makerfield-byelection-green-labour-starmer-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of \u201cputting politics above public safety\u201d after the London mayor blocked its \u00a350m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of politicising procurement after he rejected a two-year deal for Scotland Yard to use AI to process intelligence in criminal investigations, as first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/may\/21\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir\">revealed<\/a> by the Guardian. Mosley said: \u201cWhat Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/22\/palantir-hits-back-sadiq-khan-contract-met-police-blocked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4db7bfacb800f63f849445b5aa153c86c70e5b96\/218_0_2917_2333\/master\/2917.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=20da4ee9196dffac0dbcd49916bfec36\" title=\"Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after \u00a350m contract with Met police blocked\" \/>London mayor accused of \u2018putting politics above public safety\u2019 for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nPalantir has accused Sadiq Khan of \u201cputting politics above public safety\u201d after the London mayor blocked its \u00a350m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company.<br \/>\nLouis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of politicising procurement after he rejected a two-year deal for Scotland Yard to use AI to process intelligence in criminal investigations, as first revealed by the Guardian. Mosley said: \u201cWhat Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London mayor accused of \u2018putting politics above public safety\u2019 for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of \u201cputting politics above public safety\u201d after the London mayor blocked its \u00a350m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/palantir-hits-back-at-sadiq-khan-after-50m-contract-with-met-police-blocked\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after \u00a350m contract with Met police blocked<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23208,"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\/23207"}],"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=23207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}