Historically, British political reaction to returning the artefacts has been sceptical. In 2014, Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, said “someone urgently needs to restore George Clooney’s marbles”, describing Clooney’s proposal as “advocating nothing less than the Hitlerian agenda for London’s cultural treasures”. Clooney responded, describing Johnson’s remarks as “too much hyperbole washed down with a few whiskies”.
