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Peter Mandelson had “no influence” on the Ministry of Defence signing a contract with American tech giant Palantir, a defence minister has said, amid “serious questions” about his links to the company.

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00:00Someone's sneaking up on you, and you can use one-way attack drones, or just for finding the enemy itself.
00:06It's very useful for, you know, what you're showing in this case, where there's damage, to get you to really be able to do in the headquarters.
00:12So how do I take all the capability that you usually have in the headquarters and package that down to edge computing?
00:16Some of the computing's happening here, some of the computing's happening on the drones themselves.
00:20Peter Mandelson had no influence on the decision to award this contract.
00:23It was a decision made by the Secretary of State, and his decision alone.
00:27The Prime Minister has been clear at the Spats Box that the public and the House deserve transparency,
00:31and we intend to publish as much material as we can, as soon as reasonably possible.
00:36The Cabinet Office is working with the Met Police and Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee
00:41to ensure that the release of any documents do not prejudice the Met investigation
00:46or the UK's national security and international relations.
00:49The process for doing that is underway, in addition to the other actions the Prime Minister has already taken.
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