Fleabag star offers rent-free flat to new writers

Other backers include playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who wrote stage shows including Ink, Quiz and Dear England, as well as Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright and The Crown's Peter Morgan.

Waller-Bridge's partner Martin McDonagh is also involved. He is best known for writing and directing films including Oscar and Bafta-winning The Banshees Of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Graham said the scheme tackled the class barrier facing writers and helped them avoid "giving up completely".

"The industry's urgent pursuit of representation is still letting down the biggest area of under-representation of all, which is class," he said.