Mayor Khan’s response to LUVT’s joint secretary Isabella’s question (during People’s Question Time Online) about his plans to save live events workers. “The risk is that when we come out of lockdown, our USP, self-employed, will be lost and future investors will choose other European cities because we won’t have a cultural offer […] We will continue to lobby the government to help people and not only institutions”.
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