Sir Laurie Magnus, chair of Historic England (HE), gives evidence to a parliamentary enquiry on contested heritage. He restates HE’s position on the matter, saying that we should ‘retain and explain’ controversial objects and keep them ‘standing where they are in public spaces’. Magnus goes on to say such objects should not be relocated ‘because people then have to go to the museum’. He also states HE’s keenness to ‘work with owners because ultimately it is the owners of statues who have to make the moves to change them’.