"Boris Johnson appears to have had a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of the controversial US data firm Palantir, the year before it was given a role at the heart of the UK's pandemic response. A month after entering No 10, Johnson and his senior adviser Dominic Cummings had a meeting with Thiel, leaked files suggest. Johnson is now likely to face questions about whether the non-disclosure amounts to a breach of the ministerial code."
"It took place in Downing Street on the day Johnson had informed the queen he was proroguing parliament in an effort to push through his Brexit plans, triggering a huge backlash. The secrecy around Johnson's encounter with Thiel raises serious questions about how transparent the government's public log of meetings has been in recent years. It is unclear why officials did not disclose the meeting between the prime minister, his senior adviser and a tech mogul"
Boris Johnson held a private, hour-long meeting with Peter Thiel and senior adviser Dominic Cummings on 28 August 2019 in Downing Street. The meeting was marked private in Johnson's activity log and did not appear on the government's public meetings log. The encounter occurred a month after Johnson entered No 10 and the year before Palantir gained a central role in the UK's pandemic response. The meeting's non-disclosure has prompted questions about potential breaches of the ministerial code and the grounds for claiming political or personal exemptions. The existence of the meeting was revealed in leaked Boris Files obtained by transparency researchers.
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