Baffled Jess Phillips dismisses Elgin Marbles row in awkward live TV exchange

Jess Phillips dismisses Kay Burley's questioning on Elgin MarblesSky News

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00:00What are we going to do about the Elgin marbles?

00:04Oh gosh, do you know what Kay? I don't know what we're going to do about the Elgin marbles.

00:10What would you like to happen? Do you think we should keep them here?

00:14Oh gosh, it's like a raging debate in my house with my husband, the Elgin marbles.

00:19It's certainly a raging debate as it relates to, let me finish if I may please,

00:23the Greek Prime Minister and our Prime Minister are meeting today.

00:27They want them back. We pinched them a long time ago. What should we do?

00:32Look, I think that there's probably a perfectly sensible solution that can be come up.

00:37I'm not going to pre-empt the conversation that the Prime Minister is going to have

00:41with the Greek Prime Minister because that would then become the story

00:45of me telling Keir Starmer what to say to the Greek Prime Minister.

00:48But look, it seems like the two friendly nations could probably get over this particular issue.

00:55I have to say, in the public, it's very rarely raised with me on a doorstep

01:00what's going to happen to the Elgin marbles, notwithstanding my husband's keen interest.