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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Nigel Farage also said gen Z was open to critical thinking but millennials were ‘absolutely hopeless’.
Farage claimed gen Z was open to critical thinking but millennials were ‘absolutely hopeless’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Nigel Farage has claimed teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK election win, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.

The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”.

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