Lisa Nandy to DCMS staff: “For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives. This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives. In recent years we’ve found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another. And lost that sense of a self-confident, outward looking country which values its own people in every part of the UK. Changing that is the mission of this department. *The era of culture wars is over.*”