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Peter Mandelson\u2019s involvement with the US tech company Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency, campaigners have said, amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information than is alleged in his emails to Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n Palantir, an $300bn startup that provides military technology to the Israel Defense Forces and AI-powered deportation targeting for Donald Trump\u2019s ICE units, has UK government contracts worth more than \u00a3500m. Global Counsel, a lobbying company Mandelson co-founded and part-owns, also works for Palantir.<\/p>\n The cabinet secretary, Sir Chris Wormald, is being urged to release information about Mandelson\u2019s role when the British embassy arranged for Keir Starmer<\/a> to visit Palantir\u2019s showroom in Washington DC in February 2025 shortly after Mandelson became ambassador to the US.<\/p>\n Mandelson and Starmer met the company\u2019s chief executive Alex Karp and were shown the company\u2019s military technology. Karp signed a strategic partnership with the UK defence secretary, John Healey, seven months later and in January the Ministry of Defence<\/a> (MoD) signed a \u00a3241m three-year contract with Palantir to \u201cboost military AI and innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n Foxglove, a fair tech campaign group, led calls for the Cabinet Office to release information relating to any involvement by Mandelson in the negotiation of Palantir\u2019s contracts.<\/p>\n Alex Burghart, a Conservative MP and shadow chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, also urged Wormald to review Palantir\u2019s latest MoD contract \u201cgiven the allegations now coming to light about Mandelson\u2019s conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n Starmer\u2019s meeting with Palantir did not appear in the prime minister\u2019s register of visits<\/a> and was acknowledged only in subsequent disclosures, Burghart said. He said Palantir\u2019s MoD contract \u201cwas granted by direct award\u201d \u2013 without competition \u2013 and asked that the cabinet secretary check there were \u201cno other such contracts, no other such undisclosed meetings\u201d.<\/p>\n