Members stopped from attending AGM in person claim they can ‘detect a faint flavour of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party’
The National Trust has been accused of blocking critics from its annual meeting after members were turned away from attending in person.
Trust members who applied to attend the annual general meeting in Bath on Saturday have been forced to watch online, because of a surge of interest in this year’s meeting.
The trust said the capacity for the venue was based on the same number who applied to attend last year’s meeting.
But it received more than double the expected number of applications for in-person attendance, amid heated debate over the direction of the charity.