{"id":3884,"date":"2023-03-09T07:57:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/rishi-sunak-says-government-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-tackle-ticket-touts\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:57:54","slug":"rishi-sunak-says-government-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-tackle-ticket-touts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/rishi-sunak-says-government-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-tackle-ticket-touts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak says Government is doing \u2018everything it can\u2019 to tackle ticket touts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that his Government will do \u201ceverything it can\u201d to combat ticketing touting, after MP Kevin Brennan highlighted Eurovision tickets being listed on Viagogo for thousands of pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During Prime Minister\u2019s Questions yesterday (Wednesday) Brennan highlighted a BBC Radio 4 show, \u2018You and Yours\u2019, which discussed the issue of tickets being sold for up to \u00a37,000 (\u20ac7,900\/$8,350) on resale site, Viagogo.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan said that the programme had exposed queue-jumping online touts, who bought up Eurovision tickets before listing them for extortionate prices online.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With ticket touts charging more than \u00a37,000 for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eurovision2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Eurovision2023<\/a> tickets on sites like Viagogo, isn&#8217;t this another example of rip-off Tory Britain?<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMQs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMQs<\/a> I asked the Prime Minister why his government hasn&#8217;t done more to stop these rip-off merchants and facilitating websites \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Q0cIZ6HEy\">pic.twitter.com\/4Q0cIZ6HEy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Brennan MP (@KevinBrennanMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinBrennanMP\/status\/1633451079135289344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ticket prices for Eurovision ranged from \u00a330 to \u00a3380 for all nine shows, with tickets for the grand final selling out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/03\/07\/eurovision-grand-final-tickets-sell-out-in-36-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36 minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response the Prime Minister said: \u201cWe have put in place measures to combat ticket touting. I\u2019m happy to look at the documentary that he mentioned to make sure that we\u2019re doing everything we can\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore generally it is a source of enormous pride for us to host Eurovision. I know it is something that everyone is looking forward to and we should ensure that there is as broad as possible access to seeing that and we\u2019ll do everything we can to make sure that that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Twitter after the session, MP Sharon Hodgson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharonHodgsonMP\/status\/1633465875474022408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cGreat to see my colleague raise the important issue of ticket abuse today at PMQs. It was interesting to hear the PM say he has put in place measures to combat ticketing touting\u2026 I\u2019d be delighted to learn more about these measures but I\u2019m not sure they exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Chair of the APPG [All-Party Parliamentary Group] on Ticket Abuse I have long campaigned for the rights of ordinary fans to be able to access events without having to face a minefield of fraudsters and crooks. We need legislation to help the CMA [Competition and Markets Authority] stamp out bad actors and to make the secondary marketplace safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eurovision is set to be held at Liverpool\u2019s 11,000-capacity M&amp;S Bank Arena in May.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2023\/03\/09\/rishi-sunak-says-government-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-tackle-ticket-touts\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that his Government will do \u201ceverything it can\u201d to combat ticketing touting, after MP Kevin Brennan highlighted Eurovision tickets being listed on Viagogo for thousands of pounds.\u00a0 During Prime Minister\u2019s Questions yesterday (Wednesday) Brennan highlighted a BBC Radio 4 show, \u2018You and Yours\u2019, which discussed the issue &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,364,692,4196,2323,727,577,497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurovision","category-live-music","category-liverpool","category-pmqs","category-rishi-sunak","category-scalpers","category-ticket-touts","category-uk-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}