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Keir Starmer faces fresh questions after PM's office admits he met Taylor Swift backstage at Wembley gig

No10 has rejected suggestion Government ministers got free tickets to singer’s gig as ‘thank you’ for intervening in her security arrangements

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer met Taylor Swift at London gig as questions continue over her blue-light escort

No 10 rejects claims the prime minister was given tickets as a ‘thank-you’ for taxpayer-funded police escort

The Independent UK

Downing Street denies Keir Starmer got Taylor Swift tickets as 'thank you' for arranging her police escort

It emerged on Tuesday that Prime Minister and his family met with the pop star and her mother after Wembley show this summer

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Bakerloo line extension takes step forward as design work starts on new stations

A new feasibility study will look at the design and engineering possibilities of four new stations along the extended Underground line

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First new Piccadilly line train is covered in graffiti as it arrives in London

Shameful spray-painting of Tube train transported from Austria spoils TfL joy

Evening Standard

Susan Hall demands inquiry into Taylor Swift blue light escort to Wembley

Former mayoral candidate also asks why senior Labour figures including the prime minister and Sadiq Khan were handed freebies to her shows

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift’s mother ‘negotiated police escort with Sue Gray’ as security row deepens

The Metropolitan Police is believed to have asked for legal advice about the motorcycle escort amid fears officers could be held responsible for any accidents

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Taylor Swift police escort claims: how much of a problem is this for Labour?

‘Undue influence’ from politicians is said to have led to Met giving US star VVIP protection en route to Wembley shows

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan puts pressure on Starmer over EU as he insists no reason to be scared of single market return

The London mayor calls for ‘closer alignment’ with the EU and says talks about rejoining the single market should not be off the table

The Independent UK

Super sewer: Thames Water customers will pay £25 annual levy for another two decades to fund £4.5bn project

Seven new riverside piers, cycle superhighway reinstated - but tunnel boss won’t be swimming in the Thames, despite Sadiq Khan’s vision

Evening Standard

How the UK Attorney General found himself at centre of Taylor Swift’s police escort row

The government’s top lawyer was engulfed in ‘Swiftgate’ probe after he reportedly intervened in the pop star’s security

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer vows to rip up investment red-tape as PM woos business leaders at London summit

The Prime Minister makes his ‘pitch for Britain’ as he seeks to fire up the UK’s economic growth

Evening Standard

'Utterly disgraceful': Swastika and other antisemitic messages raked into Hendon golf course bunkers

The Community Security Trust (CST) said it was aware of the ‘appalling antisemitic slogans and symbols’

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Campaign to save east London mechanic who faces eviction after falling £112k behind on rent

Len Maloney of JC Motors says his rent has become unaffordable, after it was more than doubled in the years leading up to the pandemic

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'Green hypocrisy!' Sadiq Khan in row over Heathrow Airport expansion

Mr Khan was accused of failing to show ‘climate leadership’, while the Labour mayor said the Green Party was guilty of hypocrisy over renewable energy

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan reveals Islington Council leader Kaya Comer-Schwartz as new policing deputy

The mayor’s incoming new deputy said she was ‘thrilled’ to have been chosen for the job, which involves overseeing the work of the Met Police

Evening Standard

New Year's Eve London fireworks: Tickets cost up to £50 as premium areas and 'tourist tax' introduced

Londoners will pay £15 per ticket less than visitors from abroad or rest of UK

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Keir Starmer dodges questions on a severance payment for Sue Gray ousted as his No10 chief-of-staff

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden stressed the senior civil servant had ‘been through quite a lot in the last few weeks’

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Sadiq Khan: Extending Night Tube to run on Thursday nights 'under review'

‘Thursday is the new Friday’, the mayor was told at a City Hall meeting

Evening Standard

TfL cyber attack has left 'big' number of Londoners out of pocket, admits Sadiq Khan

Students and older Londoners are having to pay full fares as a result of the attack

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: my 10-year plan to clean up London’s rivers – just like its air

The Mayor of London sits down with Dylan Jones for a chat about politics, traffic – and his status as an unlikely sex symbol

Evening Standard

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper did go to Taylor Swift concert, admits Cabinet minister despite earlier denial

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper did go to a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley, a minister admitted on Thursday despite a Cabinet colleague denying just 24 hours earlier that she had.

The National (Scotland)

Home Secretary got free Taylor Swift tickets after talks about star's VIP escort

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper attended one of Taylor Swift’s Wembley concerts with her husband after being involved in talks about the singer’s…

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan 'confident' of economic 'optimism next spring', warning 'tough Budget' must come first

‘We can't have more austerity. We've had 14 years of austerity,’ London’s mayor has said.

The Guardian - UK

Ministers facing questions over Met’s VIP protection for Taylor Swift

James Cleverly asks Yvette Cooper if she intervened to ensure popstar’s London concerts went ahead

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