Minister confronted over accepting football tickets linked to water pollution company

Environment secretary Steve Reed has been confronted over accepting football tickets linked to a water pollution company. In an awkward exchange, Mr Reed told Sky News host Kay Burley he was not aware the company he accepted the tickets from was linked to a UK water firm. Ms Burley confronted Mr Reed about £2,000 of football tickets he had declared from CK Hutchison Holdings, which she said owns 75 percent of CK Infrastructure Holdings, the owner of Northumbrian Water. “There was nobody from a water company that was involved in offering those tickets. There was nobody from a water company at that event,” Mr Reed said on Wednesday (23 October).