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The UK government has refused to reveal the details of a meeting between the American billionaire Peter Thil and a former minister on the basis that doing this could harm “diplomatic relations” between Britain and the United States.

ThoroughRepublican donors and a prominent supporter of the Vice President of the United States JD VANCE, then met the Minister of Investment at then Lord Dominic Johnson in January 2024 to discuss the American “investment environment” and the United Kingdom.

The UK Ministry of Business and Trade told the Financial Times that it would not issue full social notes because it includes information about “Peter Thill’s views on a meeting on an important political issue.”

“The detection of the detained information may lead[s] Place UKThe administration said this week in response to the request for freedom of information.

He added that the disclosure “could affect the United Kingdom’s relations with the United States.”

The government issued social observations that have been greatly revised and a business schedule in response to a request to disclose FT. Revisions were performed based on exemptions for the laws of transparency that are usually called in relation to communications between public authorities in the United Kingdom and other states, international organizations, or “members of other countries”.

The government’s position will raise questions about the nature of Thil’s role in dealing with the UK government.

The German company Thiel, the head of the Palantir Data Analysis software, has developed a huge network in the United States government and the Republican Party and was a major donor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Thil refused to donate his campaign to re -election.

A portfolio, Thika for a time working for VANCE in the investment capital company in Silicon Valley and had an effective role in his rise to the White House.

Companies participated in their founding or support, such as Palantir and Anduril-a Defense Technology Company-have been granted large government contracts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in areas such as health and defense.

Paltter won more than $ 2.7 billion in US contracts since 2009, including more than $ 1.3 billion in Pentagon contracts, according to federal records, and benefited from A. The rotating door for executives Those who moved between the company and the high -level situations in Washington and Sistter.

In the United Kingdom, Baltir won contracts of half a billion pounds, including a contract with the National Health Service for Patient Data Management.

Not designed parts of the meeting documents show that Johnson was intending to address Thill’s concerns about the failure of the defense arm in Paltier to the European market and the United Kingdom’s income as a “global destination, pioneer and present for charitable works.”

Palantir obtained a contract worth 75 million pounds with the Ministry of Defense in December 2022.

Thiel expressed pessimism about the British economy, citing high taxes, low growth and “the fact that growth is driven by real estate rather than innovation like technology,” according to a document.

The meeting worked on “developing a relationship” with Thiel, which was referred to as the founder of Thiel Capital, his own investment company, according to briefing notes prepared for Johnson, which was titled “District with Peter Thil”.

In the justification of the detained parts, the Ministry of Business said that the exchanges between Thil and Johnson occurred “in the short period” before the upcoming presidential administration in a “very sensitive time” for American policy and the relations between the United Kingdom and the United States.

At the time of the meeting, the American elections were eight months away.

DBT said it “complied with its obligations under the Freedom of Information and Information Law that was blocked in accordance with the law.”

A Thiel spokesman did not respond to FT’s request about whether Thiel had any mandate time to work as a representative of the interests of the US government, electoral candidates or a political party.