{"id":264915,"date":"2025-03-23T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/rachel-reeves-confirms-accepting-free-sabrina-carpenter-tickets\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:01:19","slug":"rachel-reeves-confirms-accepting-free-sabrina-carpenter-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/23\/rachel-reeves-confirms-accepting-free-sabrina-carpenter-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves confirms accepting free Sabrina Carpenter tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed she accepted free tickets to a Sabrina Carpenter concert, saying she will declare them.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Reeves said she attended the concert a couple of weeks ago with a family member.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tightened rules on ministers accepting gifts<\/a> and hospitality in November after he and a number of cabinet ministers faced criticism over donations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sir Keir paid back more than \u00a36,000 worth of his own gifts and hospitality<\/a> that he had received since becoming prime minister after the backlash. The figure included the cost of six Taylor Swift tickets.<\/p>\n

The new rules introduced last year did not ban ministers from accepting donations but do now require them to consider the “need to maintain the public’s confidence”. <\/p>\n

Reeves was asked by Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday why she did not pay for the tickets. The chancellor responded that they were not tickets you could pay for.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t a price to those tickets,” she said, as she underlined she would declare the value of them.<\/p>\n

Her confirmation follows reporting from a number of media outlets on the story earlier this week.<\/p>\n

In September 2024, the chancellor said she would not accept clothing donations while in her current role after it emerged that she had accepted such donations while in opposition.<\/p>\n

She had been one of a number of Labour politicians who faced questions after accepting thousands of pounds worth of clothes as gifts before the election.<\/p>\n

Reeves previously told the BBC that accepting donations to pay for clothes was not something she had planned to do as a government minister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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