Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (Image: Getty)
Yvette Cooperattended a Taylor Swift concert for free after pushing for the star to get a police escort.
The Home Secretary went to the Wembley show on August 16 with husband, former Labour minister Ed Balls, who had tickets from Universal Music.
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Ms Cooper and London Mayor Sadiq Khan had been involved in talks about security for the American singer's Eras Tour concerts in the capital.
The star was given a motorbike convoy to protect her on the way to Wembley despite initial police reservations, The Sun reported.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted the escort was not the result of "undue influence" from senior Labour politicians attending the concerts.
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Ms Cooper is understood to have contacted parliamentary authorities in early September to register the tickets.
But she was told they would not be declarable because they did not meet the cost threshold, and because they were a gift to her husband rather than her.
The tickets have instead been declared to the Home Office, and the declaration is expected to be published alongside other ministerial interests by the Cabinet Office in November.
Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Khan and Ms Nandy were among Labour figures given free tickets to Eras Tour gigs, although the PM has since paid back the money.
But the Culture Secretary said there was no link between the hospitality they received and the police protection for Swift.
"I utterly reject that there's been any kind of wrongdoing or undue influence in this case," she told Sky News.
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She said the Home Secretary would be involved in discussions about the security risk, particularly given that Swift's shows in Vienna were cancelled because of a terror threat.
Ms Nandy told Sky News: "When you have major events, whether in London or in other parts of the UK, the Home Secretary will be involved in a conversation where there is a security risk.
"I also know that she doesn't have the power, nor would she use the power, to insist that any individual got the top level of private security arrangements. That is an operational matter for the police, not for the Government.
"The police made the decision. Ultimately it is their decision and nobody else can make it."
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The Sun reported that the Metropolitan Police's special escort group had initially been reluctant to give the Cruel Summer singer the kind of protection normally reserved for senior royalty and politicians.
A Met Police spokesman said the force was "operationally independent", and that its decision making was "based on a thorough assessment of threat, risk and harm and the circumstances of each case".
The Home Office said the popstar's security had been an "operational decision for the police".