UK refuses to release details of Peter Thiel’s meeting with former minister

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The UK government has refused to disclose a meeting between the American billionaire Peter Thiel and the former minister that it can do “diplomatic relations” between Britain and the United States.

TielA Republican donor and prominent supporters of the US vice-president JD Vans met with the then investment minister Lord Dominik Johnson in January 2021 to discuss the “investment environment” in the United States and UK.

The UK business and trade department has told the Financial Times that it will not publish the full meeting notes because they include information on “Pitter Thil’s aspect of the view and an important policy problem”.

“The expression of detained information can superstate diplomatic relations because this will reduce the confidence and confidence of the foreign government.[s] Put on UK“The department said this week in response to the information request of the information independence.

It has added that the expression “can make us potential superstition of the UK relationship”.

The government has published a large number of meetings and an agenda in response to the request for the publication of the FT. The rebuilding was made on the basis of the concession of the UK government authorities and other states, international organizations or “organs of” organs of other states “.

The government’s position will question the nature of the role of Thill in the transaction with the UK government.

The Chairman of the Data Analytics software company Palanthi has created a great network in the German-born Thiel US government and the Republican Party, and Donald Trump was the key to the President’s President’s Campaign. However, Thiel refused to donate in promoting his re -election.

A conservative liberal, who appointed Van for some time at his Silicon Valley Valley Valley Capital Farm and played a vital role in his rise in the White House.

A significant government agreement has been given on both sides of the Atlantic in the national sector of the company Thiel co-founded or supported, such as Palanti and Anduril-A Defense Technology Company-Health and Defense.

According to the Federal Records Pentagon won more than $ 2.7 billion in Palanty’s US deal with more than $ 1.5 billion in contract and made capital in A. Executor Those who have moved into the company and high-level position in Washington and Westminster.

In the UK, Palanti has won up to £ half billion with a contract with national health care to handle data.

Unchanged parts of the documents related to the meeting showed that Johnson intended to solve Thill concerns about the lack of access to the Palantia defense arm in the European market and identified the United Kingdom as a “incubator for a world-leading destination and initiative.”

Palantir was signed a $ 75 million deal with the Defense Ministry in December 2022.

Tiel expressed frustration about the UK’s economy, according to one of these documents, “high taxes, low growth and innovation like technology are innovative.”

According to a briefing note for Johnson, the founder of Thiail, “To build a relationship” with Thiail, at this meeting, according to the briefing note titled “Bilateral with Peter Thiel”.

To justify the barrier part, the business department said that the exchange between Thiel and Johnson was “immediately” before the President’s Administration in the “very sensitive time” for US politics and for UK-US relations.

During the meeting, US elections were eight months away.

The DBT says that it was “Information Act of Freedom The Act obeyed its obligations and the data was prevented by data”.

A spokeswoman for Thiel did not respond to any FT request on whether the US government, the election candidate or the political party had an order to serve as a representative of the political party at any time.