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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

‘No one needs their name near this’: the secret plot by touts to undermine Labour’s reforms

A grainy but colourful camera image of of a dinner in a venue with blue lighting and a large artificial tree as decoration
Footage from a hidden camera at the Coalition for Ticket Fairness dinner. Photograph: n/a

“You’ve sold concert tickets, you’ve sold sports tickets, you’ve sold football tickets, you’ve sold theatre tickets … You’ve made money or you wouldn’t be in this room.”

The voice of Scot Tobias, one of America’s most successful ticket “brokers”, boomed out from the stage. After an hour of drinking and networking, his impassioned pitch was met with cheers by the room full of touts gathered in a subterranean events space in central London.

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