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The #LabourParty has locked the #UK's main repositories of #CulturalLoot:
Royal Armouries,
British Library,
British Museum,
Imperial War Museum,
National Gallery,
Natural History Museum,
National Maritime Museum,
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside,
National Portrait Gallery,
Museum of London,
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew,
Science Museum,
Sir John Soane’s Museum,
Tate Gallery,
Victoria and Albert Museum,
Wallace Collection.
#ukpol
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The #commencementorder which brings it into effect is the "The Charities Act 2022 (Commencement No. 4 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2025".
It is a #Statutory Instrument, SI1191 of 2925, signed by the minister #StephaniePeacock MP: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1191/schedule/made.
Its Schedule lists 16 museums which Labour has banned from returning #CulturalLoot.
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THREAD: #Labour blocks return of the #UK's #CulturalLoot. 😡 A Conservative law which allowed return of Britain's imperial plunder has been gutted by Labour/#LINO. 🤮
New UK law allows some museums to return cultural items to the nations they were looted from. But most of the loot is in "national museums" such as the #BritishMuseum, which the so-called "#LabourParty" has excluded from the new law.
The #ArtTheft by the #BritishEmpire is protected #Starmer's government. 😡 #ukpol
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Claire McNab