Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50m Met police contract

Palantir intends to sue the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, after he blocked a contract between the US spy-tech firm and the Metropolitan police . The Met had planned to use Palantir’s software to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, until Khan intervened in late May, sparking a row between the UK’s largest police force and the mayor’s office . Khan said there had been a breach of procurement rules in the contract and suggested Palantir had been the only contender. …