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