Claim: UK Conservatives Are Now “The Party Of The Arts”

So says Tory shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey. “There will always be people who claim ‘Labour good, Tory bad’, even in the face of the most incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. It is intensely frustrating when those you are talking to choose to hear only what they want to hear. Sometimes, I guess, you just can’t teach an artistic director new tricks.”