Under-pressure Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was spotted enjoying more freebies this weekend just days after it was revealed he received more than £17,000 in hospitality tickets in the last six months.
Sports-mad Mr Khan, 51, who is paid a £152,734 salary, was pictured watching Liverpool beat Norwich 3-1 at home on Saturday afternoon.
Hospitality tickets at Anfield can cost anywhere from £129 to as much as £679 for high-profile clashes with rivals like Manchester United.
Hours later, the London mayor was seen watching the blockbuster welterweight bout between Amir Khan and Kell Brook at the AO Arena in Manchester.
Boxing fans paid as much as £1,000 to sit ringside as Brook annihilated Khan in six rounds in the highly-anticipated match-up.
A spokesman for the Mayor’s office said: ‘Sadiq attended the LFC match yesterday as a guest of Liverpool Football Club.
‘He was invited to the boxing as a guest of Amir Khan. Both will be declared on his Gifts and Hospitality register as per the usual processes.’
It comes after it was revealed Mr Khan scored 34 free tickets to some of the capital’s most prestigious events in the last six months.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was spotted enjoying more freebies this weekend. Pictured: Sadiq Khan enjoys a Premier League clash between Liverpool and Norwich at Anfield Stadium
Pictured: After a trip to Anfield, the Mayor of London popped over to Manchester to watch the high-profile clash between Amir Khan and Kell Brook at the AO Arena on Saturday night
Sports-mad Khan has enjoyed more than £17,000 of hospitality tickets in the last six months
They included five of England’s home games in their thrilling Euros matches last summer.
Most of those tickets were priced at some £791 each were direct from UEFA.
He also took advantage of two money-can’t-buy, invite only, seats in Wimbledon’s Royal Box, estimated to be worth £976.80.
And on one day, August 14 last year, Mr Khan used two £149 tickets to The Hundred cricket match at the Oval before going to watch AFC Wimbledon against Bolton Wanderers with another pair of £150 passes.
It is his sixth year serving as Mayor and has surpassed his predecessor Boris Johnson in ticket numbers for year six of his tenure.
The now Prime Minister got a total of 21 entertainment or sporting free tickets. including five to see the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in 2013.
Mr Khan has recently come under pressure after his ousting of Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick as well as trouble with the TfL transport network.
London Assembly Member Tony Devenish told MailOnline: ‘Londoners wouldn’t begrudge Sadiq Khan his freebies if he served the public by supporting our police to ensure crime was going down, not up, and ran Transport for London efficiently instead of causing congestion and strikes.’
Mr Khan has enjoyed £17,370.60 of hospitality in 34 free tickets during a six-month spell
Sadiq Khan in the stands ahead of the UEFA Euro 2020 Group D match at Wembley on June 18
Sadiq Khan and wife Saadiya Ahmad in the Royal Box on Wimbledon Centre Court on July 10
Anna Wintour and Sadiq Khan at The Fashion Awards 2021 at Royal Albert Hall on November 29
Details on Mr Khan’s tickets stretch back to the start of his time as Mayor in 2016, but only this year puts a value on the hospitality.
It is broken down into calendar years and due to the pandemic and its restrictions has nothing before May last year.
But as England’s postponed Euro 2020 tournament delighted fans on June 18, Mr Khan got three tickets donated to him from UEFA worth £2,373 for the England Scotland match.
Four days later he was at the Czech Republic vs England game, this time on a cheaper £154.80 pass.
A week later England took on Germany and he received four tickets plus hospitality totaling £3,164.
And on July 7 he got four top passes for England vs Denmark worth again £3,164.
There was a break from the football for the Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Final, where he got two Royal Box seats valued at £976.80, alongside Prince William and Kate.
But the next day was the Euros final and he was able to attend Wembley on four hospitality tickets worth £3,164.
Supporters of Mr Khan say the football tournament passes were all official engagements and the Mayor a guest of UEFA, who provided them as part of London’s host city agreement.
The next month he was a guest of Surrey County Cricket Club on August 14 with two tickets to The Hundred in Oval featuring Invincibles vs London Spirit.
On July 7 Mr Khan got four top hospitality tickets for England vs Denmark worth some £3,164
Saadiya and her husband the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan attend the Opening Night Gala for The Harder They Fall during the 65th BFI London Film Festival on October 6 last year
Regina King, Idris Elba, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Producer Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z attend the Opening Night Gala for The Harder They Fall in London on October 6 last year
Mr Khan enthusiastically tweeted about Cinderella after receiving the free tickets to watch
That night he had two tickets from AFC Wimbledon to watch them take on Bolton Wanderers.
Four days later he was a guest of Andrew Lloyd Webber and got four tickets worth £280 to watch his Cinderella production.
There was another two tickets to the cricket and then on September 28 two £500 per ticket passes for the premiere of the new Bond film No Time To Die.
In October Mr Khan had four tickets to the BFI London Film Festival, then in November was his most expensive freebie.
The British Fashion Council handed him two £999 passes for The Fashion Awards 2021.
A spokesman for the Mayor of London told MailOnline: ‘It is the Mayor’s top priority to keep Londoners safe, which is why he has invested £1bn in policing, more than any other Mayor, helping to put an extra 1,300 police officers on our streets.
‘As Mayor of a host city for the Euros, Sadiq had an important role attending the tournament and welcoming key stakeholders from around the world to Wembley.
‘It is absolutely right that the Mayor is a champion of the capital’s creative and sporting sectors.
‘They have been devastated by the pandemic and it is a key part of the job of the Mayor to attend a range of events to support these vital sectors and the economic recovery of our city.’
