LONDON — MPs enjoyed free hospitality at the U.K.’s top events this summer, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer accepting tickets to Ascot for his family.
Google paid for several MPs to attend Glastonbury Festival including Labour’s Chris Curtis, Dan Aldridge, Leigh Ingham, Steve Race, Jake Richards and Fred Thomas. The hospitality cost of the individual packages was worth up to £4,000.
Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage, who has been critical of tech companies using copyrighted material to train their AI models, also took a Glastonbury ticket and a tent from Google. Deputy Speaker in the Commons and fellow Tory Nusrat Ghani was also gifted a ticket by the tech giant.