MPs ‘failing to learn lesson’ over freebies after accepting £400,000 of hospitality

Cost of tickets included £858 to a Harry Styles concert at Wembley; £1,839 to the Chelsea flower show and £3,432 of hospitality at the Brit Awards MPs have been accused of failing to learn their lesson over freebies after taking almost £400,000 of hospitality to concerts, sport matches and other events this year, with Louise Haigh, Lucy Powell and Wes Streeting among those accepting tickets. Despite the previous outcry in 2024 over Keir Starmer accepting football tickets and gifts of clothing , MPs appear to have been declaring hospitality since the start of the year on a greater scale than previously seen. The most recent disclosures include £858 tickets to a Harry Styles concert at Wembley from the PRS, a musicians industry group which was accepted by Powell, the deputy leader and now education secretary. Wes Streeting, now defence secretary, meanwhile accepted tickets to the Chelsea flower show from Lloyds Banking Group worth £1,839. But individual MPs, individual ministers, make their own decisions,” he said then.

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