Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) on stage with colleagues and performers after announcing his party's "arts for all" policy at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London
MORE than 500 cultural figures have said that they “owe it to the country, the world and the future” to support Labour at the coming election.
An open letter signed by scores of artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers has pledged “full support” for Labour’s manifesto, It’s Time For Real Change, which they describe as “the most visionary offered to the British electorate in living memory.”
Published in Tribune today, the letter praises Labour’s “vision of the arts as being integral to communities, and its conception of politics as something inherently collective, creative and transformative.”
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NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend
