The 32 pieces of Asante Gold, named after the African empire from which they were taken, will be returned to the country from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum.

Ex-Chancellor Mr Osborne, chairman of the British Museum, suggested sending either a third or half of the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens in a temporary swap arrangement.

The Prime Minister appeared to try and cool tensions with Athens – a day after he accused his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, of ‘grandstanding’.

The sculpture has also been a pawn in a diplomatic war of words, as the horse is a highlight of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum – and the Greek government is demanding them back.

When serving as Mayor of London ahead of the London Olympics in 2012, Mr Johnson wrote to a Greek official to say that ‘in an ideal world’ the marbles should never have come to Britain.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised the issue of the 2,500-year-old sculptures, at a meeting with the Prime Minister at Downing Street today, but Mr Johnson insisted there was nothing he could do.

Stanley House (pictured) is an eight-bedroom home set in acres of grounds in Chelsea, west London, and the Grade II* listed property boasts a very rich history.

The EU’s post-Brexit negotiating mandate is being extended to include a demand to ‘address issues relating to the return or restitution of unlawfully removed cultural objects’.

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