Nigel Farage refuses to take ‘woke’ anti-bullying training for MPs

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nigel Farage has refused to take up parliament’s anti-bullying training, branding the scheme “woke” and saying he has no intention of engaging with it. open image in gallery Nigel Farage has ‘no intention’ of completing the anti-bullying course Figures published by parliament show that eight others are on the waiting list for the training, while 637 MPs have completed it. Asked about his refusal to take up the training, a spokesman for Mr Farage said: “Mr Farage has not taken part in ‘behaviour code awareness training’ and has no intention of engaging with this woke scheme.” Former shadow minister Charlotte Nichols, who has campaigned for a better working environment in parliament, urged all MPs to take the training. Mr Bone was found by parliament’s behaviour watchdog to have “committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct” against a staff member in 2012 and 2013, including that he “verbally belittled, ridiculed, abused and humiliated” an employee and “repeatedly physically struck and threw things” at him.