Right-leaning group fails to wrest control of National Trust

Restore Trust blamed new voting system for defeat of all its candidates at annual general meeting in Bath

A right-leaning campaign aiming to wrest control of the National Trust from an alleged political" takeover has criticised a new voting system, after all of its candidates for council seats were defeated at the trust's annual general meeting.

Restore Trust failed to secure a single win and immediately attacked the soundness of the charity's democratic system after results were announced at the National Trust's Grade I-listed Bath Assembly Rooms.