Price caps for pop concerts: is there any market Labour won’t restrict? |
Labour’s plan for a ban on secondary ticket sales is an open door for fraudsters. Yet more proof that only the Conservatives believe in free markets, says Andrew Griffith
Anyone would think that growth is roaring back, public spending has been brought firmly under control and small boat crossings to our shores have ceased.
Why? Because the government has committed this week to use significant amounts of its precious legislative time on effectively banning secondary ticket sales. A pile driving sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Instead of focusing with laser-like precision on the issues they promised us that they would, such as the cost of living and NHS waiting lists, the hapless duo of Starmer and Reeves have instead decided to shackle businesses operating in our crucial entertainment sector – one of Britain’s great success stories – with new burdensome and costly red tape. How costly? They don’t even know as the analysis which does that – the so-called impact assessment – has not yet been published.
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