Taylor Swift concerts at Wembley are set to go ahead as the Met Police said there was nothing to link them to an alleged terror plot targeting her gigs in Austria.
Police in Austria detained two people on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting attacks on concerts.
They said one, a 19 year-old suspect, had a particular focus on the Swift concerts in Vienna.
In Britain, a Scotland Yard spokesperson said: “There is nothing to indicate that the matters being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an impact on upcoming events here in London.”
The Met Police said millions of visitors had a safe and enjoyable experience at high-profile events in London every year, with Bruce Springsteen playing at Wembley in July.
"The Met works closely with venue security teams and other partners to ensure there are appropriate security and policing plans in place," the spokesperson added.
"As always, we will continue to keep any new information under careful review."
Earlier police minister Dame Diana Johnson said Scotland Yard would be risk assessing whether it was safe for the concerts by the pop megastar to go ahead at Wembley after three were called off in Austria.
The American singer-songwriter sold out Wembley Stadium for three nights in June and she is due to return with her Eras Tour to the huge venue for five performances in August.
Support acts for the singer’s Wembley gigs are August 15 Sofia Isella, August 16 Holly Humberstone, August 17 Suki Waterhouse, August 19 Maisie Peters, and August 20 RAYE.
Organisers of three Swift concerts in Austria later this week were cancelled after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts.
Swift was scheduled to play at the Austrian capital’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Event organiser Barracuda Music said in a post on its Instagram channel late on Wednesday that “we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety”.
Barracuda Music said that “all tickets will be automatically refunded within the next 10 business days”.
Earlier on Wednesday, authorities said they had arrested two suspected extremists, one of whom appeared to be planning an alleged attack on an event in the Vienna area such as upcoming concerts.
The 19-year-old main suspect was arrested in Ternitz, south of Vienna, and the second person in the Austrian capital.
Asked about the cancellations and the planned concerts at Wembley, UK Home Office minister Dame Diana Johnson told LBC Radio said: “Clearly the police will be looking at all the intelligence and making decisions.
“They risk assess every event that happens in this country.”
Franz Ruf, the public security director at Austria’s interior ministry, said on Wednesday that authorities were aware of “preparatory actions” for a possible attack in his country “and also that there is a focus by the 19-year-old perpetrator on the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna,” the Austria Press Agency reported.
Mr Ruf said the 19-year-old had pledged an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group.
The Austrian citizen is believed to have become radicalised on the internet.
Speaking on Thursday, Mr Ruf said the 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Swift concert, with chemical substances found during a search of his residence.
The two males are part of a small group police are looking into,” Mr Ruf told ORF radio.
"We are of course investigating their wider surroundings," he stressed, adding that the threat was minimized with the arrests.
Police have now detained three people suspected of plotting attacks on concerts.
Searches of the main suspect's house in the town of Ternitz near the Hungarian border showed "concrete preparatory actions," said Mr Ruf, with chemical substances and technical devices seized.
The Kurier newspaper, citing sources familiar with the situation, reported that the suspect had stolen the chemicals from his workplace and had built a bomb.
The newspaper reported that the 19-year-old had planned to drive a car into the crowd expected to gather outside the stadium, and had also considered using machetes and knives.
Austria's interior ministry and intelligence service were not immediately available for comment on the report's details.
The shows were to be part of the record-breaking Eras Tour by Swift which started on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, US, and is set to conclude on December 8, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada.
Swift, 34, has not yet commented on the cancellations on her official Instagram account which has 283 million followers.
