Mayor of London Sadiq Khan under investigation over free Taylor Swift tickets

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/17/sadiq-khan-investigation-free-taylor-swift-tickets-mayor-uk/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Sir Sadiq Khan is under investigation after accepting free tickets to a [Taylor Swift](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/taylor-swift/) concert.

    City Hall’s standards watchdog confirmed on Friday morning that it would examine whether the Labour Mayor of London “exercised an appropriate level of caution in deciding to accept the tickets”.

    The investigation by the authority’s monitoring officer comes after Susan Hall, [the former Tory mayoral candidate](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/04/labour-claims-mayoral-victory-for-sadiq-khan/), made a formal complaint.

    Sir Sadiq attended one of the pop star’s [Eras tour](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/taylor-swift-wembley-stadium-review/) concerts at Wembley Stadium, London, on Aug 15.

    He was one of several senior Labour figures who went to Swift shows after accepting free tickets.

    A row erupted over the freebies after it emerged ministers had asked Scotland Yard to provide the singer with a [royal-style police escort](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/16/scotland-yard-taylor-swift-escort-open-floodgates/).

    The mayor initially said he had received six tickets worth £194 each from the Football Association, [according to the BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp39g17gr4wo).

    However, officials later said the tickets were actually estimated to be worth £500 each and had been paid for by a company called LS Events, which had reportedly worked with City Hall in the past.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/17/sadiq-khan-investigation-free-taylor-swift-tickets-mayor-uk/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/17/sadiq-khan-investigation-free-taylor-swift-tickets-mayor-uk/)

  2. He’s probably accepted a lot more than a few tickets.

  4. Something about that guy I just can’t stand

    I have a feeling more will come out in the wash about him in the future

  6. Makes sense the guy sided with a gangster who was attacking police and died as a result, simply because he was black.

  7. I’m not really going to lose sleep over the Mayor of London accepting tickets a high-profile event in London that brought a huge amount of revenue into London via hotels, restaurants, etc. Seems like the kind of thing the Mayor ought to be seen at.

  8. If we’re gonna get outraged over what London Mayors do, where’s the garden bridge money, Boris?

  9. “there was an administrative error which was corrected.”

    What’s the penalty? A benefit claimant makes a “simple mistake” and gets ~£50 paid to them ends up with a fine of ~£1800

    Happy for Kahn & whoever brought the tickets to have a £100k fine each. As they say punitive fines focus the minds on correctness.

  10. Remember when Swift was given a police escort to her concert and the Tories started screaming corruption and bribery?

  12. Whoopty fucking doo. Hardly the scandal that the telegraph thinks it is.

    Didn’t Boris get something for wallpaper? Or something for flat? For a Russian or some other prick? Who knows, that isn’t important. Sadiq Khan getting free concert tickets is the real threat to democracy, clearly.

  13. Should the mayor not go to a massive event that brings lots of money into London?

  14. Don’t let them know the borough mayor got into the model railway show for free.

  15. lol. Of all the things to spark a political scandal, Taylor Swift tickets isn’t what I’d expect. We’re an odd little country, aren’t we?

  16. If this is the level of “scandal” in the Labour Party, we are in a pretty good place compared to a few years ago

  17. If that’s the main issue then the people of London can sleep safely

  18. Six tickets worth £500 each and swift has an escort by the met normally reserved for royalty. Sounds legit to me.

  19. I despise Khan, but I think this is low on the list of things for which he should be reprimanded.

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