Home secretary tries to dismiss Taylorgate role with lame joke as pressure mounts over police escort scandal

Yvette Cooper has tried to make light of her role in ‘Taylorgate’, joking that her husband had told her to ‘get over it’.

The Home Secretary made reference to Taylor Swift’s song while speaking about the controversy surrounding the US singer’s escort.

She told political reporters that her husband Ed Balls, a former Labor Cabinet minister, had advised her to “snap it out” whenever she found herself at the center of media storms.

Ms Cooper added: “Ed’s advice was, in the words of a superstar: ‘He haters gonna hate, gonna hate. shake it up Shake it up.”

‘And this is how we will continue. And also focusing on the things we’re doing and the things we’re doing to change things across the country.”

The Home Secretary tried to play down her role in ‘Taylorgate’, joking that her husband had told her to ‘snap out of it’.

Taylor Swift was given a blue light escort as the megastar played dates across the UK over the summer as part of her Eras tour.

Mrs Cooper told political reporters that her husband Ed Balls, a former Labor Cabinet minister, had advised her to “snap out of it” whenever she found herself at the center of media storms.

Sir Keir Starmer, seen with his wife Victoria (pictured), was the top Labor politician to receive tickets to the Wembley concerts.

Last week it emerged that Ms. Cooper had been involved in discussions with Scotland Yard which led to officers agreeing to accompany Swift to the police.

It was then revealed that she had attended one of the singer’s concerts at Wembley as a guest of her husband, who had been given four free tickets by Swift’s record label, Universal.

Ms Cooper did not have to include the perk on the MPs’ register of interests because it was worth £170, below the £300 limit for reportable gifts and hospitality.

But he did declare it to the Home Office for the separate list of ministerial hospitality and it will be published along with other transparency data.

Labor sources dismissed any allegations of a potential conflict of interest, given that Swift was forced to cancel her previous shows in Austria due to a foiled terror plot.

“I think any suggestion of this nature shows a fundamental failure to understand the gravity of the post-Vienna security context and is clearly complete nonsense,” one source said.

‘Shake It Off’ is one of Swift’s many hits, from her 1989 fifth album.

Sir Keir received four tickets and hospitality, worth £2,800, to Swift’s August 20 concert at Universal Music Group’s Wembley

Fresh questions were raised amid reports that Sue Gray, the prime minister’s former chief of staff, negotiated directly with Swift’s mother Andrea over security.

Last week, the Culture Secretary denied claims that Ms. Cooper had exercised undue influence.

Lisa Nandy said: “When you have major events, whether in London or in other parts of the UK, the Home Secretary will engage in a conversation where there is a security risk.”

But senior Tories condemned Ms Cooper’s role in the row, with the party’s leadership candidate Robert Jenrick saying it was “strange”.