The National Trust has said a pro-Brexit march promoted by Nigel Farage which has been travelling from Sunderland to London is not welcome at its properties. It comes after the March to Leave, which has been passing through Yorkshire this week, had originally been due to use two National Trust sites in the county as meeting points along the route.

About 150 marched from Hartlepool on second day of tour organised by property tycoon’s Leave Means Leave group.

Row breaks out with counter-protesters as March to Leave departs from Sunderland.

It had been billed as a mass protest, taking in the length of England and descending on Westminster, but the so-called “Brexit betrayal march” is only to be done in its entirety by 50 people – and their figurehead, Nigel Farage, won’t be there for most of it.