Sir Keir paid back more than \u00a36,000 worth of his own gifts and hospitality<\/a> that he had received since becoming prime minister after the backlash. The figure included the cost of six Taylor Swift tickets.<\/p>\nNonetheless, the prime minister did defend his acceptance of corporate hospitality from the Arsenal football club in September \u2013 citing security as his reason for doing so.<\/p>\n
The Premier League football club made two seats available for Sir Keir in the corporate area of the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n
The prime minister explained at the time he had been advised that necessary security costs for him to sit in the stands would cost the taxpayer more.<\/p>\n
The new rules introduced last year did not ban ministers from accepting donations but do now require them to consider the “need to maintain the public’s confidence”. <\/p>\n
Reeves was asked by Kuenssberg why she did not pay for the tickets. The chancellor responded that they were not tickets you could pay for.<\/p>\n
“There wasn’t a price to those tickets,” she said, as she underlined she would declare the value of them.<\/p>\n
Her confirmation follows reporting from a number of media outlets on the story earlier this week.<\/p>\n
In September 2024, the chancellor said she would not accept clothing donations while in her current role after it emerged that she had accepted such donations while in opposition.<\/p>\n
She had been one of a number of Labour politicians who faced questions after accepting thousands of pounds worth of clothes as gifts before the election.<\/p>\n
Reeves previously told the BBC that accepting donations to pay for clothes was not something she had planned to do as a government minister.<\/p>\n
As a government minister, Reeves would receive a salary as an MP which was \u00a391,346 as of April 2024, as well as an additional sum for being a minister. <\/p>\n
The salary for the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the financial year 2022\/23 was \u00a367,505. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Shadow chancellor Mel Stride was also quizzed about gifts on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg with respect to ski passes and Bafta tickets accepted by shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith. <\/p>\n
Griffith’s registered interests, which are detailed on Parliament’s website, include a declaration of two tickets with hospitality to the 2025 British Academy Film Awards (Bafta) estimated to be worth \u00a34,000. <\/p>\n
The shadow business secretary has also declared discounted ski-passes and guiding for two worth \u00a3973 for a trip to Switzerland in January. <\/p>\n
Stride said on Sunday that he does not know the specific details. <\/p>\n
Speaking of both Griffith and Reeves, Stride said: “I think it’s for them to justify what they do.”<\/p>\n
In a statement to the BBC, Griffith said: “Clearly my attacks on Labour’s devastating impact on business have got under someone’s skin.”<\/p>\n
He added that he “diligently” registers hospitality he receives and did so for the two cited instances. <\/p>\n
“The Baftas are a celebration of the creative sector – one of the UK’s largest exporters – and were also attended by Labour ministers,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It might be more of a story had the shadow business and trade secretary not attended.”<\/p>\n
Regarding the ski passes for the Parliamentary Ski Trip, he said it was a “long standing and cross-party event” as he underlined that he personally covered the costs of flights and accommodation. <\/p>\n
“It does include social events with Swiss parliamentarians, and these are the elements which were properly disclosed on my register of interests,” Griffith added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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