Despite all the free concert tickets the Labour lot received to her gigs, Taylor Swift seems to be causing Sir Keir Starmer’s top team rather a lot of trouble. The US singer’s mother demanded special security measures for her daughter while she performed in London – and Starmer’s crowd capitulated. Today it has emerged in the Sun that, according to Whitehall insiders, Sir Keir’s former chief of staff Sue Gray played a crucial role in convincing police to provide taxpayer-funded protection to the American pop star. Talk about being the Anti-Hero, eh?
Gray’s name cropped up following reports that police were concerned about the request to grant Swift a blue-light escort to the gigs. Scotland Yard requested legal advice from the Attorney General about offering the public purse-funded service to the US singer as the Met Police were insistent there was no specific threat against Swift. How curious…
The latest update follows revelations in the Sun last week that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and London mayor Sadiq Khan had personally intervened to provide the American singer with a type of protection reserved only for senior royals and politicians.
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