Overview

• Speaking at Hillsdale College in Michigan, Nigel Farage accused teachers of "poisoning our kids" by casting black pupils as victims and white pupils as oppressors and said walkouts would follow within weeks of a Reform UK election win.
• He pledged to promote Hillsdale College’s online courses in Britain, saying he would help attract "hundreds of thousands, if not millions" of young people to the material.
• Farage described overhauling education as a long-term, "herculean" project that would take years rather than months and portrayed Gen Z as more open to critical thinking than millennials.
• NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede called the claims of Marxist control "nonsense," labelled Farage’s rhetoric "grossly irresponsible," and noted that legal strikes must be over teachers’ terms and conditions.
• Coverage notes Reform UK has not set out detailed education proposals or named an education spokesperson, as reporting also cites polling that places the party ahead nationally.