A senior aide to David Cameron was secretly helping Uber almost two years before Downing Street launched a lobbying campaign to protect the online taxi firm, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Mr Korski urged Kit Malthouse, then London’s Deputy Mayor for Business, to ‘look into Uber’s case and see what we might do’. Critics last night said the intervention laid bare the influence Uber had with the Cameron administration. At the time, Rachel Whetstone, a then friend of Mr Cameron, was a senior Uber executive. ‘Could I ask you to take a look at a problem Uber seems to be facing with TfL?’ he wrote.

Source: Daily Mail May 01, 2021 21:03 UTC