British Museum staff express support for trustee who resigned

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif quit role over BP sponsorship and artefacts repatriationWorkers at the British Museum have issued a statement in support of the novelist Ahdaf Soueif, who resigned as a trustee last week because of the institution’s “immovability” on critical issues, including its sponsorship by BP.The staff, who are members of the Public and Commercial Services union, said Soueif’s resignation highlighted “the troubling nature of the relationship between BP an