Culture secretary Lisa Nandy defends chancellor amid economic turbulenceThe reason that Culture secretary Lisa Nandy was on the media round today was to promote the government’s consultation on tackling online ticket touting.On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she said:People will no longer go on to a website and find that the tickets have been bought up by touts in mass numbers as part of an industry that fleeces fans and leeches money out of the music industry and are then sold on at vastly inflated pricesOver £1,000 pounds, for Coldplay tickets, for Bruce Springsteen tickets. I don’t know a single person who could afford that sort of thing. And that’s what we’re bringing an end to today, the time is up for ticket touts.In my view the government was right to reject that form of opportunism [the Tory amendment that was voted down this week].But I did hear last night coming out of that debate ministers saying they are open to discussing issues now with survivors.I get the point that Andy’s making. He said that there was a case for a smaller, more limited national inquiry into the specific issues that the inquiry that he instigated could not pick up.I do understand that because the inquiry that we had here in Greater Manchester, astonishingly, some of the Greater Manchester police officers refused to even take part, and the local inquiry couldn’t compel them to do so.The reason I think that that people have heard from us that there may at some point in the future be another inquiry is because child abuse by its very nature is hidden, it’s secretive, and at various points, I’m sure that more will come out about the scandals that we’ve heard. We are not going to rule out an inquiry ever. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2025-01-10 09:59:00
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