The National Education Union (NEU) has called upon schools to instruct students that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party is “far-right and racist” in an apparent bid to stem the growing popularity of the party among young people.
At its annual conference next month, Britain’s largest teachers union will debate a motion calling for teachers in Britain to “educate and challenge” students who are interested in supposed “racist beliefs and far-Right activity” and to provide schools with so-called anti-racist resources.
The motion, reported by the Mail on Sunday, specifically singles out the Nigel Farage-led Reform UK as having run on an “anti-immigrant platform” and said that “far-right and racist organisations, including Reform,” scapegoat asylum seekers, Jews, Muslims, and Refugees.
The party, which advocates for a reduction in mass migration and an end to…