A row has erupted between Nigel Farage and Britain’s biggest teaching union, the National Education Union, after it branded Reform UK a “racist and far-right” party. The NEU members called for funds to be used to help campaign against Reform UK candidates.
The NEU’s general secretary, Daniel Kebede, claimed there are “an awful lot of racists who are getting involved in Reform”. Farage reacted angrily to Kebede’s claims, accusing him of encouraging “indoctrination of teenagers in our schools” and vowing that his party would “go to war” with the teaching unions if it won the next general election.
The Reform UK leader campaigns for tougher action against illegal immigration and a “one in one out” policy for legal migrants to ease pressure on housing and the NHS. He has always insisted he is not a racist and has rejected calls from some Reform UK members to side with far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
A motion at the NEU’s conference described Reform UK as a “racist and far-right party because of its policies around immigration and its campaigns against migrants”. It accused the party of “scapegoating refugees, asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and others who do not fit their beliefs”.
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