Home Secretary watched Taylor Swift concert from Royal Box

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper faced claims that she had undervalued her now-infamous tickets to watch Taylor Swift in concert after The Mail on Sunday established that she and her family had enjoyed prime seats in the Royal Box at Wembley Stadium worth up to £1,000. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her husband Ed Balls watched Taylor Swift from Wembley's Royal Box. Ms Cooper is pictured filming the concert on her phone The politicians can be seen in the VIP seats, which the Mail on Sunday has established were worth up to £1,000 The tickets were provided by Ms Swift's record label, Universal - whose CEO is a friend of Mr Balls However, Commons rules are ambiguous because they state that gifts to a third party should be declared if the benefit 'was given because of his or her membership of the House or parliamentary or political activities'. Senior Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke told the MoS: 'If it is the case that Ms Cooper's Taylor Swift ticket was worth £1,000, there is no question that it should have been declared in the MPs' register' Ms Cooper attended the concert with Mr Balls and their two children A spokesman for Ms Cooper said: 'We took advice from the parliamentary authorities on whether it should be declared, and followed all the advice we were given' A spokesman for Ms Cooper said: 'Yvette attended the concert as a guest of her husband, Ed Balls, who had been given tickets by the CEO of Universal Music, who he has known for many years.