Education secretary says she won’t accept further freebies and recognises her privilege to receive free tickets
Bridget Phillipson said it was important as an MP to ‘follow everything that’s asked of me in terms of declarations’.Bridget Phillipson said it was important as an MP to ‘follow everything that’s asked of me in terms of declarations’.The education secretary said she would not accept more free tickets after the controversy, which has dogged Labour’s first few months in government.
She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that while she would not repay the £522.54 cost of the two tickets, which she was given as a gift by the FA, she would not accept further freebies in future. Ministers have faced questions over the extra security granted to the megastar during her stay in London, which included a blue-light escort usually reserved for royalty and senior politicians.It has emerged that senior politicians and officials spoke to the Metropolitan police after the force refused Swift’s request for extra security, made after she cancelled a series of concerts in Vienna because of a foiled terror plot.
It also emerged this week that Keir Starmer met Swift and her mother after attending one of her concerts days after a decision was taken to grant her a blue-light escort.
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