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In 2007, towards the end of his time as UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair gave a speech at the Tate Modern gallery in London to representatives of the UK arts world—senior creative personnel and administrators in the main UK arts institutions, and those involved in the various bodies that support and lobby on behalf of them. His speech was also, of course, aimed beyond these figures, to those interested in the arts and culture who would hear about the speech via the media. Blair was self-consciously seeking to shape future histories of New Labour’s record on the arts and culture. The speech offers a helpful summary of what Blair and others in government (including at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the ministry with responsibility for culture) saw as the central arts and culture achievements of New Labour.1
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© 2015 David Hesmondhalgh, Kate Oakley, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett
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Hesmondhalgh, D., Oakley, K., Lee, D., Nisbett, M. (2015). New Labour, Culture and Creativity. In: Culture, Economy and Politics. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426383_2
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