Sadiq Khan received tickets to Swift's London concert from a company awarded a City Hall contract.
A company that gave Sadiq Khan £3,000 Taylor Swift tickets was awarded a City Hall contract just a week before the concert.
The mayor, his wife Saadiya and two senior officials, Ali Picton and Eliot Treharne, are the only attendees City Hall has been prepared to name so far. It has emerged that on 7 August - eight days before the concert - LS Events was awarded the contract to run Diwali on The Square for the next four years.
There are just six firms on the approved list and they bid against each other or could sometimes potentially bid unopposed for contracts as they come up. They were not accepted by the mayor until the eve of the concert and “no-one who received a ticket was involved in the procurement process”.
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