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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Right-leaning group fails to wrest control of National Trust

The meeting took place at the National Trust’s Grade I-listed Bath Assembly Rooms
The meeting took place at the National Trust’s Grade I-listed Bath Assembly Rooms. Photograph: Radharc Images/Alamy

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.

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