What’s odd about all this is that I don’t think Watson has made any difference to the decision… he has merely just made the decision more political than it needed to be….
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Tom Watson, Labour’s former deputy leader who is now an executive at Palantir, lobbied Health Secretary Yvette Cooper on behalf of the controversial US tech firm just weeks before it secured an extension to its NHS contract
“I want to ensure that Palantir UK rises to meet the government’s new social-value tests and helps build Britain’s sovereign technological capability,” Watson wrote to Cooper in a September letter viewed by Bloomberg
He added that Palantir was “investing heavily” in the UK, where he wrote that nearly a fifth of its global workforce is based
In the weeks since the letter, Cooper’s health department decided to extend Palantir’s £330 million NHS contract for two additional years while searching for a potential British software firm to replace the work
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