Tory critical of National Trust to chair parliamentary group dedicated to charity

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.