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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.”
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
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP