Music festival fans have done their bit - now Rishi Sunak needs to act with government-backed insurance Jochan Embley
After news of the Government’s roadmap was announced last week finally giving a glimmer of post-pandemic hope to us culture-starved, vitamin D-deficient lockdowners festival ticket sales went through the roof. Reading Festival sold out in hours, and Leeds is well on its way to doing likewise. London’s Field Day got all booked up in record time. And it looks like there is more to come: last Friday, Ticketmaster, the official retailer for a large number of UK events, reported a 600 per cent spike in traffic.
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