The artistic provenance of the new culture secretary remains a mystery. Gathering the hacks associated with his range of briefs – arts, sport, broadcasting principally – Ben Bradshaw told us how pleased he’d been when he got the call from Brown while he was in his Exeter constituency. It was quite a long conversation, it seems, and he didn’t have time to say much he said. So it wasn’t till the PM had hung up that Ben could punch the air and say “Yes! Wimbledon!”





