The National Trust has dismissed claims that its chairman resigned in response to the campaign by Restore Trust and others against ‘wokeness’ in the Trust.

The announcement of Tim Parker’s resignation came a day after Restore Trust circulated a motion for the annual general meeting in the autumn declaring no confidence in him and calling for fresh leadership to ‘regain the nation’s confidence’ in the charity.

The Observer quotes a National Trust spokesman as saying the timing of Parker’s resignation had nothing to do with the no-confidence motion and that, had he been worried about criticism levelled against him last Autumn, he could have chosen then not to stay on for a third term.

Read the article on the Guardian website here.