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The Times
•
15 Oct 2026
The Tories want to cut £1bn from the culture budget. The sums don’t add up
Comment piece
by
Richard Morrison
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How would they cut a billion quid without killing hundreds of excellent arts organisations? Questioned by Jack Gamble from the Campaign for the Arts, Rebecca Paul — appointed shadow culture secretary one month earlier — blustered: “Labour are actually increasing the budget up to 2028-29 by £700m… that’s unallocated, so we would unwind that in the first instance.”
Nobody can work out how she arrived at the figure, since the only increase the DCMS seems to be receiving is £400m to help to host the Euro 2028 football competition. But even assuming she is right, that leaves £300m of cuts to culture. How will that be achieved?
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