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Taxpayer-funded police training likened Nigel Farage and GB News to Islamophobia

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Taxpayer-funded police training has drawn a direct comparison between Nigel Farage's views on Islam and a racially aggravated criminal offence. The session also featured footage from GB News, where presenter Matt Goodwin presented a YouGov poll showing that over half of Britons considered Islam incompatible with British values. The training material disagreed with the findings and argued that Islamic teachings aligned with democracy and religious tolerance. North Yorkshire Police officers attending the publicly funded hate crime conference in a session at the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime Conference in 2025. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Mr Farage's questioning of whether Islam is compatible with British values was placed alongside footage of a man racially abusing a Muslim bus driver. The training formed part of Project Unity, a programme also delivered to students, local authority employees and civil servants working on the counter-extremism Prevent strategy. During the sess