He claims that money in the arts is being concentrated at the top rather than dwindling.

“as you can see with the the strikes going on uh money in the Arts is um not dwindling it's just going straight to the top”

Alastair Campbell believes that the government should continue to invest in the arts in London because it is a cultural capital of the world.

“I'm all in favor of leveling up if it means something I'm all in favor of things going to the north but you know we London as a cultural capital of the world is something we should be proud of and we should continue to invest in it”

Rory Stewart expresses strong support for government funding of the arts and disagrees with utilitarian approaches that undervalue culture.

“I'm with you 100 with you I'm a big supporter of funding for the Arts Council and for all these kinds of things and I agree with you it's something that we should be very proud of in Britain and I think it's it's a problem when governments begin to get too kind of brutally utilitarian because I thin”