New Culture Secretary should support our industries, instead of stoking culture wars

Nadine Dorries has been confirmed as the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, replacing Oliver Dowden MP.

Responding to the appointment, Prospect General Secretary Mike Clancy said:

“Few sectors of the economy suffered as much in the pandemic as our cultural sector, and these industries and our world class workforce need to know that the government has their back as we rebuild, something that was not always the case in the recent years.

“With that in mind, the new Culture Secretary needs to focus more on supporting our cultural industries and less on stoking divisive culture wars.

“Instead of an agenda of undermining much loved institutions like the BBC, National Trust and Channel 4, government should be celebrating an industry in which the UK is the envy of the world and putting culture and our creative workforce at the centre of our post-Covid economy.”