Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth

Lisa Nandy at the Glasshouse in Gateshead. She said the government was ‘taking the brakes off’ some of the fastest growing industries in the UK. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Arts and the creative industries will be a key part of the UK government’s drive for economic growth, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said as she promised to “bulldoze” barriers that hold back potential.

Nandy gave a speech in Gateshead where she vowed to “turbocharge” the nation’s creative industries, whether film, television, music, fashion, theatre or video games.