Former Labour Education Secretary Baroness Estelle Morris, Conservative Shadow Education Secretary Michael Grove MP, Labour Minister David Lammy MP and Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone have all agreed to become patrons for the project, which launched in March this year and brings together leading figures from the creative industries, artists, entrepreneurs and opinion makers.

New Deal founder and chief executive Martin Bright stresses the importance of the cross-party make-up of the patrons. "From the very beginning when we launched at ...