Mayor Sadiq Khan and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries had a war of words over cuts to arts funding for London at the National Theatre last night. In a speech to Creative UK, Khan accused the Government of cutting London’s arts funding by £75 million by 2025. Pointing to low cultural participation rates in the capital, he called “for a rethink”.
Dorries then hit back. “There is no cut to Arts Council funding,” she first claimed. However, seeming to acknowledge the issue, she pointed out deprivation elsewhere in the UK and said: “I’m moving some of that funding out of London to those communities”.
