Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings met with Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir, in 2019, months before the US spy-tech company landed a key role in the UK's COVID-19 response, according to papers seen by The Guardian .

The meeting, which was kept from the official record, took place on August 28, 2019, months before the UK government began forming its response to the pandemic, which would see Palantir awarded £60 million in contracts without competition , starting with a contract awarded for just £1.

The US vendor went on to win a £330 million piece of work to provide the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), which the world's largest healthcare provider said would be core to recovery from its pandemic backlog.

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