After pulling in sold-out crowds at Edinburgh's Fringe, comedian Mark Thomas is ready for a bit of a blether as he embarks on his Scottish tour.

Known for being honest and outspoken, Mark has investigated everything from Coca-Cola to inheritance tax avoidance.

His latest tour Trespass turns the limelight on the erosion of public spaces, with Mark pointing the finger at the private companies and councils taking urban spaces away from the general public, and how this affects communities.

We caught up with Mark to find out more on the motivations which have drawn him back to the comedy circuit for his latest tour.

Your bio says you do a 'bit of theatre, stand up, activism, a dash of journalism and dollop of mayhem'. Would you describe yourself as a comic first and foremost?

I don't know anymore. I leave it to critics to decide. I'm very happy doing what I am doing.

My poor family wake up and find the kitchen table covered in posters and banners. My daughter was helping me make 50 Shaun the Sheep masks.

I do sort of giggle sometimes when I am being turfed out of places or running around the place dressed as a sheep. I think, 'I'm nearly 53 and this is my job'.

Do you quite like being indescribable?

Yeah, why would you want to be like everyone else?

I passionately believe in fellowship, which is the notion that we come together as humans and help each other. And I passionately believe in our uniqueness.

What got you into comedy?

Comedy always had a currency in our house because my dad was quite a draconian fellow, a big patriarch and a Moses lookalike.

If we watched Steptoe and Son or Dave Allen then all those rules changed. You could sit and you could laugh and things would get said that would never normally be allowed to be said.

I have always found it the place where you could go to be yourself.

Who is your favourite comedian either at the moment or someone you have always looked up to?

It changes all the time. In the past, my favourite comic was Dave Allen, Alexei Sayle, [Bill] Hicks.

If I look at comics now, people like Mark Steel, Bridget Christie, Josie Long, Daniel Kitson - they do the business, they press the button.

Who do you most enjoy following on Twitter at the moment?

My favourite Twitter people are @LFBarfe and @thewritertype.

If you could be Prime Minister for one day, what one policy would you bring in?

Release the ravens from the Tower of London, the rest will happen naturally.

If you could pick four people to have at a dinner party, who would you most like around that table?

Piers Morgan, Donald Trump, Katie Hopkins and David Cameron. We're having fugu fish, let's see who walks from the table.

Which politicians do you admire most and who do you loathe?

The loathe part is covered above. Politicians who represent working people and genuinely fight for them are the ones I like.

My favourite is one who is now out of party politics, Dawn Purvis of the PUP - not a party I would have thought I would have been naturally associated with. She has fought tirelessly for women's right to choose in Northern Ireland and for equal marriage.

You have done a lot of travelling with your work - do you have a favourite city?

I love Sheffield. I have a real soft spot for Wakefield and I really like Glasgow.

And there's a place called Jackson Heights in New York - I don't think I have ever been to a place that is so diverse. It's a wonderful vibrant working class culture.

Does finding material for shows get easier or harder the longer you are in the business?

I just go and do things then tell the story about the things that I do.

Does it get easier or harder? Do you know, sometimes it just gets harder to get out of bed. I'm 53 in April and the one thing I notice is that I really am beginning to value the power of a nap.

Can you explain what the new tour is all about?

The new tour is about how public space is being taken over by corporations and oligarchs.

It changes who we are and how we relate to these places, how we relate to each other, how we regard the city and how we regard our freedoms and our rights.

There's a massive housing crisis going on in London and this echoes and ripples throughout the whole place - all through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Your last tour featured the 100 acts of minor dissent challenge - did Trespass naturally flow from that?

One year is a theatre year and one year is a weird project year. My weird project years are closer to stand-up than the theatre shows.

It's great because you don't have to appear on adverts, you get to chain yourself to buses and then you get to go to New York and perform your show.

What was your favourite of the 100 acts of minor dissent?

I was very fond of when we gave out Barbie cars to feminist friends of mine - electronic Barbie cars - and they took them racing outside the Saudi Arabian embassy.

In one of your previous tours, you made a 'People's manifesto'. What was your favourite suggestion?

I suppose my favourites were 'introduce a maximum wage' which was a popular one, 're-nationalise the railways' which was perhaps the most popular and 'models should be chosen at random from the electoral register'.

What's next on your list for investigating?

There are loads, where do you want to start? I wish I could franchise an operation and just sit at home and shout instructions.

Mark Thomas will begin his six-date Scottish Trespass tour Falkirk on March 1.