Schools are teaching children that Brexit is evil, claims Farage

‘Let the other parties call theirs manifestos. Nobody will believe a word they say’

CHILDREN are not backing Brexit in large numbers because they are taught that it is “evil” in schools, Nigel Farage has claimed.

The Brexit Party leader told supporters at a rally: “I was taught at sixth form, ‘Here is a problem. Here are two solutions. You decide what you think the answer is.’ It is called critical thinking. That is what young people should be taught – taught to think for themselves, to make their own minds up.

“I fear that through the education system, the bias is so much that actually we are teaching young people, ‘Here’s a problem. Here are two solutions: one is virtuous and good and the other is evil.’ I find that really, really worrying. Despite all of that, there is still a very large minority of young people who did vote Brexit and still want Brexit.” He defined “good” and “evil” as “good being open-door immigration and evil being control the borders; good being Greta Thunberg, bad being people like me who want to plant trees”.

Campaigning in Workington, Cumbria, Mr Farage said the Brexit Party will not publish a manifesto but “a contract with the British people – we will not call it a manifesto”. He said: “Let the others call theirs manifestos. Nobody will believe a word they say.”

Mr Farage suggested that his party could end up like the DUP with 10 MPS and hold the balance of power in a hung parliament. He said: “Over the course of the last two years, the 10 members of the DUP have basically held the balance of power in Westminster. Getting enough Brexit Party MPS in there not only will put the fear of God into them but we might, with any luck, be able to get Brexit going in the right direction – and that means not signing up to a new EU treaty.”

That came as Steve Baker, chairman of the European Research Group, said that any Tory candidate who backed no-deal as part of a secret pact with Mr Farage should be barred from standing.

Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that he was “open” to such deals with Brexiteers, but hinted that the price could be an agreement not to back Mr Johnson’s deal in Parliament.

Mr Baker told The Sun: “It is too late for self-indulgence and lack of discipline. Only by backing Boris and this deal can we move the country forward.”