Uber Files: Tech firm lobbied top ministers at undeclared meetings
A documents leak reveals how the ride-hailing app courted senior Tories to help block new regulations. …
At the time, Mr Johnson, who, as mayor had oversight of TfL, revealed how he’d been lobbied to go easy on Uber, writing that he had been deluged by “rampant, frothing, free-market Conservatives” opposed to tightening regulations on private-hire vehicles.