UK Minister rules out Return of Foreign Cultural Property

Britain has rejected President Macron’s view that ancient artefacts should be returned to their countries of origin. Jeremy Wright, the culture secretary, argued that the “real cultural benefit” to the world lay in seeing objects from different civilisations in one place. If you “followed the logic of restitution to its logical conclusion” there would be “no single points where people can see multiple things”, he said.

(David Sanderson, 'Minister rules out return of treasures', The Times April 22 2019).