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This is after the original (5 year) renewal in May 2017 was not granted and they only got a 4-month extension which expires Sept 30th.

So Uber have been on-notice since May that they need to comply with the regulator's requirements for an operators license and haven't done so.

This is an important piece of information missing from the article.

Namely this is not out of the blue.

Guardian article from may 2017.

Uber's London licence renewed for only four months

It's in the article.

I think they updated it a lot after my comment.

Apologies that it's no longer correct.