British Museum is right to keep Parthenon marbles, says new trustee

The British Museum houses the Parthenon marbles. Photograph: David Levene/the Observer

The latest appointments to the British Museum’s trustees include an academic expert opposed to the ­restitution of stolen antiquities.

Dr Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, will join new trustees including TV broadcaster and writer Claudia Winkleman, Lord Finkelstein, a Conservative peer who was an adviser to prime minister John Major, the historian and podcaster Tom Holland and the former BBC radio news anchor Martha Kearney for a four-year term. The chair of trustees is George Osborne, the former Conservative chancellor of the exchequer.