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Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends accepting free Sabrina Carpenter tickets
The politician attended one of Carpenter's shows with a family member earlier this month The post Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends accepting free Sabrina Carpenter tickets appeared first on NME.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has defended accepting free tickets to a 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. She will return this summer to headline BST Hyde Park. Any remaining tickets can be purchased here.
In other news, Dolly Parton has revealed that she laid down some ground rules to Sabrina Carpenter before agreeing to appear on their collaborative version of ‘Please Please Please’.
The singer teamed up with the country icon on the joint fresh take of the hit single for the deluxe edition of Carpenter’s latest album ‘Short N’ Sweet’, which was released last month.
In an interview with Knox News, Parton said she told Carpenter before agreeing to the collab: “I told her, I said, ‘Now, I don’t cuss, I don’t make fun of Jesus. I don’t talk bad about God, and I don’t say dirty words on camera, but known to if I get mad enough’”.
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