Leaked files reveal how Uber lobbied top ministers at undeclared meetings while fighting restrictions to its ride-hailing service in the UK.
Mr Johnson was reluctant to engage with Uber directly because the company was so controversial.
A spokesperson for Mr Javid said the "relevant departments hold no record of the meeting said to have taken place". The invitation came from Rachel Whetstone, wife of Steve Hilton, who was strategy director at the time for Mr Cameron. She had worked with him before at the TV company Carlton and Conservative HQ.
"And I think that's really, really concerning. And it feeds the perception that big business is setting the government agenda. That's really damaging to our democracy." 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.That December, in a meeting that was declared, Sajid Javid met executives from Uber who reported that he was "clearly a supporter".
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