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Twelve culture secretaries in 13 years: what does that say about the Tories' attitude to the arts? by Rachel Cooke

From Jeremy Hunt to Lucy Frazer via Matt Hancock, Nadine Dorries and the rest, recent incumbents have overseen a massive reduction in funding, and steadily downgraded the place of the arts in national life What does it take to make a secretary of state for culture? In Whitehall, the argument goes that just as we don't expect the minister for agriculture to keep chickens or know how to drive a combine harvester, we sh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM on July 9, 2023

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