Rachel Reeves risks stunting Britain’s push to promote itself overseas if she makes further big cuts to the Foreign Office and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a member of the government’s Soft Power Council has warned.
Lord Neil Mendoza told the Financial Times the UK was a “leader in the world” in higher education, science and the arts, and that retreats by the US in those areas made it a “brilliant moment to increase spending” on organisations such as the BBC World Service.
“It’s a false economy [to make cuts to the Foreign Office and DCMS] because they are so cheap and so effective internationally, and hopefully driving the economic growth this government wants,” he said.
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