How the Labor Party’s love affair with Taylor Swift backfired

The extra policing came at an additional cost of more than £30,000 per night, according to Mail Online. Figures cited by the website suggest that policing three nights of Swift’s June Wembley shows cost police £68,852.33 per night – a total of £206,557. In August, shortly after three shows were canceled due to a bomb threat, the cost of policing was £99,678.21 per night, or £498,391.05 in total. Swift contributed to the cost of policing the tour.

Robert Jenrick, now the leader in the leadership, said Labor was “shameless” and accused them of “selling out our police for a few concert tickets and a billionaire friendship bracelet”. There. Let’s hope Sir Keir can talk his way out of this.

A source close to the Home Secretary said that “security measures for events such as these are taken extremely seriously” and that “all operational decisions” were made by the Met.

“Taylor Swift’s London concerts in August came immediately after the cancellation of her Vienna concerts following the discovery of a terrorist plot that the CIA’s deputy director said was designed to kill ‘tens of thousands’ of people. participants, and that led to widespread questions. about whether the London shows would happen,” the source said.

A Met Police spokesperson said: “The Met is operationally independent. Our decision-making is based on a thorough assessment of threats, risks and damages and the circumstances of each case. It is our long-standing position that we do not comment on the specific details of protective security arrangements.”