{"id":78922,"date":"2024-12-03T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78922"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:25:49","slug":"will-starmer-do-the-right-thing-with-greeces-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/03\/will-starmer-do-the-right-thing-with-greeces-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Starmer do the right thing with Greece\u2019s marbles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have already mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/03\/keir-starmers-embraced-cakeism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer and foreign policy<\/a> in one blog post this morning, and now I must do it again.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Prime Minister is, apparently, in London this morning and will be meeting Keir Starmer. The so-called Elgin marbles are not, supposedly, on the agenda, but anybody who thinks that means the issue will be ignored must be as deluded about Anglo-Greek relationships as Rachel Reeves is about macroeconomic policy.<\/p>\n<p>After fourteen years of Tory intransigence on this issue, and growing awareness of the need for the UK to put its colonial past behind it, this is surely the moment when Starmer can really indicate that he understands why there might be places in the world that have reason to be upset about the UK\u2019s past actions, and our continuing defence of them.<\/p>\n<p>If he so wished, this could be the moment where he could indicate that change might just be on the agenda with regard to such issues, and offer the unconditional return of this looted property to Greece, where the marbles rightly belong.<\/p>\n<p>But will he?<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have already mentioned Keir Starmer and foreign policy in one blog post this morning, and now I must do it again. The Greek Prime<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/12\/03\/will-starmer-do-the-right-thing-with-greeces-marbles\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78928,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78922\/revisions\/78928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}