Watch Keir Starmer speech on the arts and Beverley Knight, James Norton and Jason Manford backing Labour’s plans
Beverley Knight, Jason Manford and James Norton are among the celebrities backing Labour’s plans for the arts industry…
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By devolving the arts, Labour can offer a powerful alternative to Tory tokenism
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden last week provoked a new front in the ‘culture war’, proposing that national arts,…
Kevin Brennan: The Tories face a creative test in Wednesday’s Budget
This is part of a series of articles in the run-up to the Budget on Wednesday. The creative…
We will end austerity to boost creativity – Corbyn speech on cultural manifesto
This is the speech delivered Jeremy Corbyn today at the launch of the party’s culture manifesto in Hull. There…
Corbyn and Watson pledge £1bn fund to support music, film and theatre
Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson have joined forces to highlight Labour’s £1bn pledge to invest in the arts…
Exclusive: Watson launches devolution taskforce to look at austerity and the arts
Tom Watson has teamed up with a leading Labour local government leader to examine the impact of Brexit…
What good are the arts? Corbyn shows he’ll give culture the attention it needs
What good are the arts? Let me count the ways. I could talk about Arts Council England research…
Corbyn’s pledges on the arts are almost really good
Nearly 20 years on from when Tony Blair shared drinks and jokes Noel Gallagher and Mick Hucknall at…
Corbyn: I’ll reverse cuts and deliver a “transformative vision” for British arts
Jeremy Corbyn has today pledged to spend an extra £40m a year on the arts and introduce an pupil…
Corbyn proposes creating a Cabinet Committee to ensure publicly funded arts sector
Jeremy Corbyn has announced that he will create a Cabinet Committee for the arts and creative industries to…
