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Cuts to arts budgets would lower Britain's earning power

In a speech this week to the Labour campaign group Progress, the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw warned about the threat to the arts should the Conservatives come to power: the independence of the creative sector would be swept away, polemical plays... Full Article at The Telegraph

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  1. A refuse worker watches a digger at a rubbish tip in Barnet, London  December 8, 2009. Braced to cut costs when Britain is facing the biggest government deficit in its history, a London council is trying the budget airline approach.
  2. LONDON - DECEMBER 8:  Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown holds a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street ahead of Chancellor Alistair Darling's (C) pre-budget report later today on December 8, 2009 in London, England.
  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04:  Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw speaks before a photocall at the Science Museum on November 4, 2009 in London, England.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw attends the Closing Gala Afterparty for 'Nowhere Boy' during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at One Marylebone on October 29, 2009 in London, England.
  5. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 27: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting on October 27, 2009 in London, England.
  6. LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20:  Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, throws an apple in the air as he leaves Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting on October 20, 2009 in London, England.
  7. BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 29: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw (l) listens to a speech to the Labour Party Conference on September 29, 2009 in Brighton, England.
  8. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband (L), Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media & Sport Ben Bradshaw (C) and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson are pictured at the annual Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre, in Brighton, southern England, on September 28, 2009.
  9. LONDON  - SEPTEMBER 24: Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (C) applauds with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and pop singer Leona Lewis as they listen to music sung by students at  the British school of performing arts September 24, 2009 in Croydon, England.

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