Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
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Palantir hiring former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson into a full-time role as it faces pressure from UK national and city governments underscores how central political talent has become to AI and data contracts. If you sell into the public sector, treat policy fluency and stakeholder mapping as core go-to-market capabilities, not adjunct PR.
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