Director of Campaign for the Arts, Jack Gamble, told The Stage that Labour’s first year had been “hit and miss for the arts, with rather more misses than might have been expected”.

“A concerning number of artists and cultural organisations are struggling to keep the lights on. Employers’ national insurance has gone up, while business rates relief has gone down,” Gamble said.

He added: “Plenty of Labour’s ministers seem to genuinely love the arts and care about public access to them, but those same ministers are planning to spend well over a third less per citizen on culture, media and sport by 2029 compared with 2010, and that will have consequences.”

Nonetheless, Gamble said it was “not too late to turn this around” and added that the costs of doing so would be “far smaller than the costs of inaction”.

“Labour’s second year could be one of progress and improvement for the arts. We really need it to be,” he said.