Keir Starmer’s meeting with Taylor Swift has left people on social media feeling thoroughly underwhelmed.
According to Sky News on Tuesday, the prime minister and his family spoke to the pop star for 10 minutes when they attended her Wembley Stadium concert – for free – almost two months ago.
Starmer and the singer spoke about the Southport stabbings, when three young girls were tragically killed while attending a Swift-themed yoga and dance class at the end of July.
This crossover between the prime minister and an international superstar comes amid ongoing questions about whether the government intervened security for the star’s London concerts.
Days after a terror scare at her gig in Austria, Swift was given a taxpayer-funded police escort which us usually reserved for senior royals and high-level politicians.
This move has raised eyebrows as the Metropolitan Police initially decided not to give one to Swift.
It was later reported that home secretary Yvette Cooper and London mayor Sadiq Khan asked the Met Police to encourage them to give the megastar a “VVIP escort”.
But, Downing Street has repeatedly said this provision of security was an operational issue for the police and denied that senior figures were given free tickets to the show as a ‘thank you’ for Swift’s blue light treatment.
And, following a row over how many freebies top government ministers have enjoyed, Starmer ended up paying for the tickets to the Swift gig himself.
Luckily for the prime minister, who has faced a flurry of backlash in his first 100 days in the job, it does not look like many people on social media think his meeting with Swift is a big deal at all.
In fact, sarcasm filled social media as accounts on X effectively rolled their eyes, and compared it to the more substantial scandals which have dominated politics in recent years...