Lisa Nandy MP, Culture Scretary commented on the security scheme involved on Taylor Swift's concerts. She said that is 'right and proper' for ministers to be involved in Swift security.
The bill for policing Taylor Swift 's Eras Tour London gigs rose by more than £150,000 after the pop megastar was handed a blue-light escort to Wembley on safety grounds.
It came after a suicide bomb threat forced Swift to cancel a previous concert in Austria, although there was no specific threat made against the five nights in the UK capital. This suggests that the August dates cost more than £30,000 per night more to police than the June ones. The majority of the costs were for staffing, though there is no breakdown by unit or role. Ms Swift contributed to the cost of the policing as well.Published figures showed that policing three nights of the tour at Wembley in June, before the threat to the concert in Vienna, cost police £68,852.33 per night, for a total of £206,557.
The Metropolitan Police was reportedly reluctant to grant the billionaire singer, 34, taxpayer-funded outriders - a service usually served for prime ministers, senior royals and top diplomats. It comes just six months after Prince Harry lost his High Court challenge against the Home Office after losing his right to police protection when he stepped down as a working royal, which included a similar police convoy.
Former Labour minister Ed Balls was given four tickets by her music label on August 4 and Yvette Cooper - who is his wife - went to the concert as his guest on August 16
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