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Farage: I’ll appoint political enforcers to stop schools promoting diversity

School leaders said Reform UK's proposals were 'ridiculous' and 'chilling'

Jessica Hill

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A Reform UK government would ban schools and colleges from engaging in diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives and appoint Whitehall enforcers to ensure compliance, the party has said.

Following the riots that took place in Belfast and Southampton amid growing racial tensions, Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage published an essay titled Britain is a two tier state – against white people.

In the essay, he took aim at what he called the “toxic ideology of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)” and claimed “every section of the state” has been “ideologically compromised”.

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