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Proms

Asked if the Prime Minister agreed with Margaret Hodge that the Proms were narrow and lacked common British values, the PMS replied that, as DCMS had been saying this morning, this was not meant to be an attack on the Proms. DCMS had also stated that, in the view of Margaret Hodge, the Proms were a wonderful, democratic and quintessentially British institution, which did a fantastic job to promote serious culture to millions of people; this was a view the Prime Minister very much agreed with.

Put repeatedly that that was not what Margaret Hodge had said in the article, the PMS said that there was an issue in regards to how her comments had been interpreted and he did not want to put words into her mouth; DCMS had made clear that she supported the Proms, as did the Prime Minister. We recognised the fact that the Proms, with the BBC, had done a good job in recent years in broadening audience participation.

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