On Friday last week, he said the following: "I am delighted that the deprivations of the last 20 years"— for which that lot are responsible— "have been stopped and that the government has at last realised that there is a serious Crisis in the Performing Arts.

On Friday last week, he said the following:I am delighted that the deprivations of the last 20 years" - for which that lot are responsible - have been stopped and that the government has at last realised that there is a serious Crisis in the Performing Arts.