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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'Not appropriate' to get free O2 tickets, says Labour minister as Rachel Reeves Sabrina Carpenter concert row grows

Rachel Reeves was at the centre of a growing row over freeby tickets at London’s O2 Arena on Tuesday as the local MP said he personally did not believe it was “appropriate” to accept them.

Greenwich and Woolwich MP Matthew Pennycook said he had never taken a free ticket for the flagship music venue in east London.

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