Tim Ball

Tickets for England’s sold-out World Cup Qualifier with Kazakhstan on Saturday are being sold for over four times their face value by unscrupulous touts, the Liberal Democrats have revealed today. Tickets are available online for as much as £260, despite Government promises to get tough with ticket touts earlier this year.

Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, Don Foster said:

“The Government has repeatedly said it would get its act together to stop ticket touts, but fans are still being ripped off.

“Ministers have made promise after promise to clamp down on touting, but it seems they’re completely incapable of acting on their words.

“The Government now needs to force the industry to agree a common code of conduct. We need a renewed commitment from the police to prosecute greedy touts who are flagrantly flouting the law.”