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The National Trust was today slammed for vowing to continue exploring the 'contentious' history of its properties after it was cleared of breaking charity law over a report linking dozens of its properties to slavery and colonialism.<br>The trust's audit, which was published last September, detailed links between 93 of its properties and historic slavery and colonialism.<br>Winston Churchill's former home,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html tour quảng châu] Chartwell, in Kent, was among the properties on the list because the wartime Prime [http://www.ajaxtime.com/?s=Minister Minister] once held the post of Secretary of State for the Colonies. <br>The move prompted a fierce backlash in some quarters, including from some MPs and peers, and the trust faced accusations of 'wokeism' and of jumping on the [/news/black-lives-matter/index.html Black Lives Matter] bandwagon. <br>Following complaints, the charities regulator opened a case to examine critics' concerns and whether the trust had acted outside its charitable purposes with the report.<br>It has now concluded the National Trust acted in line with its charitable purposes and there were no grounds for regulatory action against it.<br>In a blog post published after the judgement, the trust's director general Hilary McGrady vowed to continue exploring the 'contentious' history of its properties and said the body would maintain its 'retain and explain' approach.<br>But critics today hit out at the organisation for its stance,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html tour quảng châu] with former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage saying he had become 'increasingly appalled' by the 'woke route' which he said the trust was pursuing. <br>Leading historian and journalist Professor Simon Heffer, who left the trust last month because of its recent actions, told MailOnline he was 'astonished' that the Charity Commission had not censured the body.<br>He added the organisation had taken a 'political decision that the British empire was wicked construct' and said their September report displayed 'breath-taking ignorance' and a 'complete absence of nuance' in its findings. <br>       The National Trust was today slammed for vowing to continue exploring the 'contentious' history of its properties, which include Winston Churchill's former home Chartwell (pictured)<br>              Critics hit out at the organisation for its stance, with former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage saying he had become 'increasingly appalled' by the 'woke route' which he said the trust was pursuing.<br><br>Leading historian and journalist Professor Simon Heffer, who left the trust last month because of its recent actions, said he was 'astonished' that the Charity Commission had not censured the body<br>The trust's report, titled Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-quang-chau-tham-quyen-bang-tuong-5-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] Including Links With Historic Slavery, was co-edited by academic Professor Corinne Fowler, who previously wrote a book called Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections.<br>Other members of the project publicly advocated for the removal of statues of British imperialists, including Edward Colston in Bristol, and expressed 'full solidarity' with a Cambridge professor who was accused of racism for her calls to 'abolish whiteness'.<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox news floatRHS" data-version="2" id="mol-8e1b7560-833d-11eb-bc40-b91c88c36731" website Trust vows to press on with &apos;woke&apos; review into colonial past