IT was a hard slog: three hours of parliamentary debate about the UK ivory trade, more than half of which focused on antique ivory and whether it should be included in a UK ban on the overall ivory trade.
Not that the leather-upholstered seats in Westminster Hall’s Grand Committee Room in the House of Commons aren’t comfortable.
It was just that many of the references to antique ivory during the debate on Monday, February 6, would have been difficult listening for many ATG readers, not least because several of the 29 MPs who spoke appeared dismissive of, or ill-informed about, the antiques trade.