Andrew Murrison has boasted of leading charge against NT and accused it of ‘tarnishing reputation of Winston Churchill’

The National Trust has expressed surprise at plans to create a parliamentary group dedicated to them chaired by a Tory MP at the forefront of criticising the charity over issues such as a report into its properties’ connections to colonialism and slavery.

While it is not unusual for all-party parliamentary groups to be dedicated to bodies such as the BBC, or have charities involved in their running, the trust said it was “unusual” for an “organisation-specific” APPG to emerge without that organisation’s knowledge or involvement.

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