text: As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles , Britain 's most famous theater director , Sir Peter Hall , wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair , promoter of Cool Britannia , has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies .
  
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  Sir Peter Hall felt that Tony Blair 's promotion of Cool Britannia assured the Prime Minister 's permanent status as " A Friend of the Arts " .