Well, well well. The Labour lot are under the spotlight once again. It transpires, after the Sun newspaper’s splash this morning, that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper personally intervened to ensure that Taylor Swift received a police convoy to her Wembley shows. Priorities, priorities…
Cooper has come under fire after reporting revealed that London’s Metropolitan police were pressed by politicians over Swift’s security measures. Three of the US singer-songwriter’s Vienna shows were cancelled this year after a suicide bomb attempt was foiled by forces – and it has been claimed that the American pop icon’s mother and manager was threatening to cut the singer’s London shows unless top level police support was provided. Although police chiefs have been reported as being ‘reluctant’ to grant Swift ‘VVIP’ service, which usually reserved for senior royals and top politicians, Cooper and London mayor Sadiq Khan personally persuaded the force to provide additional protection for the singer and her entourage – at a cost to the public purse.
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