{"id":6283,"date":"2022-07-11T05:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T03:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/we-needed-dave-and-george-to-lean-on-boris-ubers-battle-for-london\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T05:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T03:36:34","slug":"we-needed-dave-and-george-to-lean-on-boris-ubers-battle-for-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/we-needed-dave-and-george-to-lean-on-boris-ubers-battle-for-london\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We needed Dave and George to lean on Boris\u2019: Uber\u2019s battle for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US firm used Tory connections to wage a relentless UK lobbying campaign, leaked files show <\/p>\n<p>Uber was riding high in London in 2014. Two years after launching, the US private hire app had eaten into the business of black taxis and minicabs without huge political backlash.<\/p>\n<p>But that spring, one of Uber\u2019s main political fixers got in touch with its California HQ with some bad news about Boris Johnson, the London mayor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/11\/we-needed-dave-george-lean-on-boris-uber-battle-for-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a835d46b33bef9a92483518eb9673cf432eadc29\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=01e04a709f43234bd69364a1494b0266\" title=\"\u2018We needed Dave and George to lean on Boris\u2019: Uber\u2019s battle for London\" \/>The US firm used Tory connections to wage a relentless UK lobbying campaign, leaked files show<br \/>\nUber was riding high in London in 2014. Two years after launching, the US private hire app had eaten into the business of black taxis and minicabs without huge political backlash.<br \/>\nBut that spring, one of Uber\u2019s main political fixers got in touch with its California HQ with some bad news about Boris Johnson, the London mayor. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US firm used Tory connections to wage a relentless UK lobbying campaign, leaked files show Uber was riding high in London in 2014. Two years after launching, the US private hire app had eaten into the business of black taxis and minicabs without huge political backlash. But that spring, one of Uber\u2019s main political &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/we-needed-dave-and-george-to-lean-on-boris-ubers-battle-for-london\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We needed Dave and George to lean on Boris\u2019: Uber\u2019s battle for London<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6284,"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\/6283"}],"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=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}