Conservative Party

Museum staff picket Tory summer ball at V&A

Protesters demand better pay as event is criticised as breach of museum's impartiality

Does change in Whitehall mean change for the sector?

The Conservative Party’s landslide victory in December will allow the government to reshape policy – and there are already rumours that the DCMS will be axed. Geraldine Kendall Adams assesses how the cultural landscape may evolve over the next five years