The music industry has penned an open letter, urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer not to make a U-turn on the government’s promise to crack down on ticketing touts. READ MORE: The UK ban on secondary ticketing explained by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy: “Time is up for ticket touts” Pressure for concrete actions to be taken to clamp down on the issue stems back to 2024, when the Labour Manifesto outlined how “access to music, drama and sport has become difficult and expensive because of ticket touting”, and the party promised to “put fans back at the heart of events by introducing new consumer protections on ticket resales”. By November last year, the government announced its plan to introduce a price cap on secondary ticket sales in a bid to “protect fans from rip-off prices”, and on the day of that announcement Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told NME that the efforts would be outlined in the King’s Speech .…