Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends accepting free Sabrina Carpenter tickets

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Sabrina Carpenter concert.Reeves confirmed that she would declare the value of them after other members of the Labour Party came under fire recently for accepting donations.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently paid back over £6,000 worth of his own gifts and hospitality, including six Taylor Swift tickets worth £2,800, in line with parliamentary rules.Reeves told BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that she’d seen Carpenter at The O2 with a family member earlier this month.

She claimed that she didn’t pay for the tickets because there “wasn’t a price” to them. The value of them has not been disclosed.“I do now have security which means it’s not as easy as it would have been in the past to just sit in a concert,” she said.Starmer tightened rules over MPs accepting gifts back in November.

Ministers haven’t been banned from accepting gifts entirely but must consider the “need to maintain the public’s confidence”.Carpenter played several arena shows in the UK earlier this month as part of her ‘Short N’ Sweet’ tour dates.