By Athena Papakosta

For a diplomatic war, which started on Monday and escalated yesterday, Tuesday, speak the British Media in their attempt to explain what the European edition of Politico named as “the Greek tragedy of Rishi Sounak” meaning the cancellation of the planned four-four meeting of the British Prime Minister with his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The British newspaper The Guardian talks to a European official who, although not named, emphasizes that “if Britain wants to be open to the world, according to international values ​​and diplomacy, it would not stop talking to friends because of a problem that has remained a problem for almost 200 years”.

It was already preceded by a Financial Times article according to which the British prime minister tried to show that he is less intransigent than his political opponent and this for electoral purposes. As the publication explained, “Rishi Sunak wants to present himself as a defender of the Parthenon Sculptures while portraying the opposition Labor leader, Keir Starmer, as someone who is ready to hand them over.”

The connections and discussions were lasting was broadcast by the also British Sky News network.

In one of them, Ed Weisey, a member of the board of the Parthenon Project, member of the Tories and former culture minister of the United Kingdom emphasized that “Rishi Sunak did not need to react in this way” which, as he explained, “does not help the country’s relations with Greece”.

At the same time, Ben Bradshaw, member of the Labor Partystated that he is in favor of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures back to Greece underlining “if someone had taken away half of Stonehenge 200 years ago then we would feel exactly like the Greeks”.

From her side, Conservative Alicia Kearns, chair of parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee; he said that Sunak’s decision to cancel his meeting with the Greek prime minister was “madness” while stating that he “finds it hard to believe that former prime ministers of the UK have not (in the past) discussed the Parthenon Sculptures when meeting with their Greek counterparts their”.

The fever inside the UK remains with a senior diplomat – who is unnamed in a Sky News article – to describe the British Prime Minister’s behavior as “ridiculous” and “ironic” while his minister Rishi Sunak – who is also unnamed – speaks of a wrong decision. At the same time, another source, also from the British Parliament, emphasized that the British Prime Minister only succeeded in making the matter just… discussed further.

And he is not wrong since, according to with a new poll from the YouGov platform, the shift of public opinion in Britain on the issue of the Parthenon Sculptures is reflected again.

particularly49% consider their return to Greece correct whileonly 15% wish to stay in Britain.

Also, in the same poll with a sample of 2,871 British citizens respondents were asked to answer whether Downing Street made the right or wrong decision to cancel the meeting. 66% of respondents answered that they consider the British Prime Minister’s move wrong, with 11% approving it and 22% saying they “don’t know”.

There are not a few who see behind the Sunak reaction internal political correlations in the United Kingdomas TIME wrote, as they explain that the country has an election a year from now.

The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has his back against the wall with Labor leader Keith Starmer even leading by as much as 20 points looking, analysts say, like a prime minister-in-waiting. And the carousel of reactions continues…