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Tim Burgess pens letter to Rishi Sunak: “Other countries have found a way to protect their citizens who work in the arts world”

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The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess has penned an article for The Guardian with one specific reader in mind – UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer Rishi Sunak.

I’m not sure Sunak is likely to be a Guardian reader, but nonetheless, Burgess takes aim at his suggestion earlier this week that, because of COVID, musicians should start thinking about giving up on their dream and re-train for another job.Sunak, of course, denies that he said any such thing.

Although when asked by ITV News about what he was doing to financially support musicians and others in the arts who are unable to work because of COVID restrictions, he started talking about them “having to adapt” and pursue “new opportunities”.

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