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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams and Peter Walker

Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union

Daniel Kebede.
The general secretary of National Education Union, Daniel Kebede, said he had ‘great concerns about what a Reform government would do to education’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The UK’s largest teaching union has called Reform UK “far-right and racist” and its leader has dismissed Nigel Farage as “a poundshop Donald Trump,” as the union pledged funds to oppose the party’s candidates in elections.

Delegates to the National Education Union’s annual conference backed a motion stating that “far-right and racist organisations, including Reform, seek to build on the despair, poverty and alienation in our society by scapegoating refugees, asylum seekers, Muslims, Jews and others who do not fit their beliefs”.

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