A number of prominent musicians, actors, TV presenters and authors have condemned Rishi Sunak for appearing to suggest unemployed arts workers should retrain and find other jobs.
TV presenter Sue Perkins wrote: “The arts contributes in the region of 10 billion a year to our economy.
It’ll be working class, BME, and disabled people pushed out of the arts, but also priced out of seeing performances.”
He adds that the “Kickstart” scheme will help younger people find new opportunities, and cited a move to putting arts and theatre lessons online.