The first ethnic minority president of the National Union of Teachers has said ministers fuel racism by ordering schools to teach "British values".

London assistant head teacher Baljeet Ghale told the union’s annual conference Britain did not have a monopoly on free speech and tolerance.

The move only fuelled the "shadow of racism" behind some notions of Britishness, she said.

A government spokesman dismissed her claims as "nonsense".

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[She has it right: We don't really need any values when we already have money, commerce and business regulations.]