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CREATIVE sector unions and Labour left artists were aghast last night after the party “boasted” that it would “not cancel” cuts to the arts if it wins May’s election.
The row erupted after a posse of top Tories launched a policy document attempting to undermine Labour’s budget plans. The opposition said the dossier was riddled with inaccuracies and listed examples of false statements on the Labour press office Twitter account.
One tweet read: “Page 44 of Tory dossier says Labour will cancel cuts to the arts budget. We won’t.”
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP