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Nigel Farage hit again at a significant instructing union after it branded Reform UK as “racist and far-right”. A movement was handed on the annual convention of the National Education Union (NEU) saying Reform is a “racist and far-right party because of its policies around immigration and its campaigns against migrants”.

It added that organisations, like Reform UK, “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”. Delegates known as for the union’s political fund for use to assist marketing campaign in opposition to the rebel celebration’s election candidates whose insurance policies and campaigns have been “racist”.

Daniel Kebede, basic secretary of the NEU, described Reform chief Mr Farage as a “pound shop Trump” who he claimed had made a profession out of “dog whistle politics”.

Speaking to the media on the convention in Harrogate in North Yorkshire, Mr Kebede mentioned: “I think there’s an awful lot of racists who are getting involved in Reform.

“I feel Nigel Farage is a right-wing populist.”

Speaking about the Reform UK leader, Mr Kebede added: “I’m stunned that our union appears to be residing lease free in his head, to be sincere. But that is simply lifted straight from the Donald Trump playbook.

“Both Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been directly attacking the AFT and the NEA, the American teachers’ unions, and this is what Nigel Farage is. He’s a pound shop Donald Trump.”

In response, Mr Farage repeated his warning that Reform would “go to war” with instructing unions.

The Clacton MP mentioned: “The NEU is led by a self-confessed Marxist who is determined that our children’s minds should be poisoned about everything to do with this country, its history and what it fought for.

“If Reform wins the 2029 general election we will go to war with the NEU and all the left-wing teaching unions. Children should be taught objectively and fairly.”