Artists and Music Businesses Ask UK Prime Minister to Re-Prioritise Ticket Touting Ban

Artists and music businesses ask UK Prime Minister to re-prioritise ticket touting ban

In 2025, the UK’s labour government announced that it intended to “ban ticket touting (scalping) to protect fans from rip-off prices”, and claimed that on average, resale tickets would be £37 cheaper on average, saving fans collectively £112 million per year. Artists, managers and industry bodies who had campaigned for this celebrated. Then, last week, reports […]

Keir Starmer told to “put fans first” by including touting ban in next week’s King’s Speech

The FanFair Alliance has again called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ensure that new laws banning for-profit ticket touting are included in next week’s King’s Speech, which sets out the UK government’s legislative agenda for the next year. The government promised to tackle for-profit ticket touting in its manifesto ahead of the 2024 General Election, and then announced it would introduce an out-right ban of unofficial ticket resale last Novem…

Artists and industry call for Government to honour promise to stamp out ticket touts

Amid concerns the UK Government will significantly delay its long-promised laws to ban ticket touting, artists and industry figures are campaigning for legislation to be included in the King’s Speech. With the speech scheduled for 13 May, the FanFair Alliance has launched a campaign urging  prime minister Keir Starmer to keep the promise he made in November to wipe out industrial-scale ticket touting by making it illegal to resell live events ti…