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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Six Tory donors given top cultural posts since Boris Johnson became PM

The Tate Modern in London.
The Tate Modern in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Boris Johnson has appointed six Tory donors to help run the country’s leading cultural institutions since entering Downing Street after an appeal to party backers to help “rebalance the representation” on public bodies.

The donors, who have between them contributed more than £3m to party coffers, were appointed by the prime minister to the boards of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate and the British Museum.

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