Rachel Reeves says she won’t take free concert tickets in future after Sabrina Carpenter row - Labour chancellor said ‘I do recognise how it looks to people’ as she slashes £5bn from welfare payments

Rachel Reeves has said she recognises that accepting free tickets to a Sabrina Carpenter concert was “a bit odd”. The Chancellor had been criticised for taking the freebie at the same time as annoucing cuts to welfare reforms.

Rachel Reeves said she recognised her acceptance of free tickets to see Sabrina Carpenter in concert was “a bit odd”. Ms Reeves told reporters at a press conference today (26 March) that she is “not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan,