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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Uk music industry hails proposals to crack down on ticket touting | History Defined

Lisa Nandy leaves 10 Downing Street.
Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, said: ‘For too long fans have had to endure the misery of touts hoovering up tickets for resale at vastly inflated prices.’ Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack down on touting in the sector.

In a move hailed by music industry figures, the culture minister, Lisa Nandy, has launched a consultation that she said would end the “misery” of fans being exploited by touts, some of whom have made huge profits by selling hundreds of tickets a year.

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