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The Met Police have backed music industry calls to cap ticket resale prices in an effort to clamp down on wallet-fleecing ticket touts. A new report has advised that “consideration must be given to introducing legislation to govern the unauthorised sale of event tickets,” going on to confirm what everybody already knows by stating that, “Due to the surreptitious way that large numbers of ‘primary’ tickets are diverted straight onto secondary ticket websites, members of the public have little choice but to try to source tickets on the secondary ticket market”. Which, if you’re skint, simply means not being able to buy tickets, period.

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson welcomed the news, saying: “This report has confirmed what those of us who have been campaigning for action on touting have known for a long time: that the secondary ticket market operates in the interests of a handful of shady dealers, rather than ordinary fans”. It remains to be seen whether the government will be swayed by the Met report, having previously seemed ambivalent about the issue, but it’s a step in the right direction…