LABOUR will boost the creative industries eventually and as resources permit, Sir Keir Starmer announced today.

Launching Labour’s plan for the sector and pledging to provide “access for all” to the arts, he warned that in government it would not “turn on the taps straight away” because of the economic inheritance.

It would however act quickly to include more arts and sports subjects in the national curriculum, he said, dismissing Tory attitudes that “working people don’t need culture.”