Khan climbdown: Palantir settles £50m Met row after fears of ‘unlawful’ bias Tech Palantir has settled its High Court battle with Sadiq Khan’s policing office over a blocked £50m Metropolitan Police contract, following concerns that the decision had been unlawfully influenced by the US tech giant’s values and ethics. City AM understands the company pursued legal action not only to challenge the decision, but also to make sure [...]
Met Police set to probe itself over ‘Putney Pusher’ suspect’s death Legal The Metropolitan Police is set to probe its own handling of the arrest of the man, now dead, suspected of pushing a woman in front of a bus on Putney Bridge in 2017, after an assessment by the police watchdog. The police were referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) following the death [...]
Palantir policing pullback driven by funding as eastern pilot pushes on Tech Palantir’s loss of a five-force policing pilot was driven by a combination of funding pressures and an assessment of the project, City AM understands. While the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) will end its two-year trial of Palantir’s Foundry software this month, the US tech firm’s work with a separate consortium of forces in [...]
Putney Pusher suspect’s sisters slam Met: ‘Our brother was innocent’ September 18, 2026 The sisters of the millionaire banker accused of being the ‘Putney pusher’, have insisted upon his innocence while hitting out at the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the investigation. Nicholas Brandram’s sisters, Alexia Hicks and Sophie Voelcker, accused the Met of being “negligent and reckless” during their investigation. The former British Army officer took his own [...]
Family of suspected ‘Putney pusher’ hit out at Met Police ‘pressure’ September 17, 2026 The family of the multi-millionaire banker accused of being the ‘Putney pusher’ have hit out at the Metropolitan Police over his death, insisting on his innocence. Nicholas Brandram, who worked as a director at a private bank and was a former British Army officer, serving in several major conflicts, was discovered dead in his West [...]
Reform’s London mayor pick: I want to design London like an iPhone September 16, 2026 Londoners are steadily finding out who will be on the ballot sheet for the next mayoral election in 2028. Mauricio Alencar spoke to Reform UK’s candidate Laila Cunningham about her tunnel-vision approach to getting things done. Laila Cunningham has a simple pitch to Londoners. While, for the moment, it looks like Labour and the Tories [...]
Met Police investigates Reform UK over potential breach of electoral law September 9, 2026 The Metropolitan Police has launched a formal criminal investigation into Reform UK over potentially illegal foreign donations after top party officials were filmed facilitating the acceptance of payments via a middle man. Detectives will look into the party’s funding following the undercover sting operation by Channel 4 News. The police were called to act by [...]
‘If that isn’t a business interest, I don’t know what is’ – Reform in donor sting crisis September 4, 2026 Two senior Reform UK figures have stepped down after an undercover investigation appeared to show them arranging a donor to pay for polling in a potential breach of electoral law. Reform’s head of policy James Orr and Dan Jukes, a top aide to Nigel Farage, stood down pending the result of an internal probe that [...]
‘Banker’ arrested in connection with ‘Putney pusher’ attack June 15, 2026 Police looking for the so-called Putney pusher have arrested a man in connection with the case, nine years after CCTV footage appearing to show a woman being pushed into an oncoming bus triggered a high-profile manhunt. The 44-year-old male was detained by the Metropolitan Police on Monday despite detectives closing their investigation into the incident [...]
Key Mandelson file withheld by Cabinet May 31, 2026 The Cabinet Office will not release a key document linking to Peter Mandelson’s vetting following police warnings that it could derail the ongoing investigation into the disgraced peer. Government officials will not release the summary document, complied by the UK Security Vetting Agency (UKSV), following advice from Scotland Yard that it could jeopordise prosecuting Mandelson [...]