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Jeremy Corbyn has outlined details of Labour’s £1 billion arts funding plan during an appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Labour leader confirmed the party would set up the biggest ever arts infrastructure fund in the UK.

And he committed to introducing an arts pupil premium - £160 million extra every year to spend on arts education and other cultural education.

Speaking at an event with Tom Watson, Corbyn quoted William Morris, who said: “I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few or freedom for a few.”

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And he said there were far too few regional or working class voices on television, bemoaning the “plethora of well-to-do accents”.

The Labour leader added: “Don't believe in Michael Gove Victorian theory of education that only English, Maths and Science matter. Nobody here is only interested in those three subjects, so why should our children be?

“Labour will retain free museum entry and we are committed to ending Tory cuts to libraries, museums and galleries.

“We don't want return to the Victorian ideal of cultural institutions being the pet projects of the aristocracy.”