Let’s do a Brexit deal with the Parthenon marbles | Geoffrey Robertson

Britain has the perfect opportunity to return the artefacts to Greece. It’s the right thing to do – and could earn concessions in fraught negotiations

Not yet a week since the triggering of article 50, and already hope of cordial negotiations seems optimistic. At the weekend, amid early jostling over the post-Brexit fate of Gibraltar, former Tory leader Michael Howard implied that one way to resolve that situation could be a war with Spain.

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