Eton College
(Picture: PA)The Charity Commission says it is “monitoring” Britain’s most prestigious school after reports of bad behaviour following a talk by Nigel Farage.
Pupils at Eton College reportedly heckled girls from a visiting state school shortly after the former UKIP leader gave a speech.
Farage, who left before the alleged jeering started, says there was an “excitable atmosphere” before his talk. “I have had tens of millions of views on TikTok”, he told us.
The £40,000-a-year school, which is a registered charity, voluntarily filed a report about a “serious incident” to the Charity Commission. A spokesperson for Eton said “the school has investigated and sanctioned a number of pupils.”
The Commission has vowed to “monitor their handling” of the incident and contact Eton’s charitable trustees.
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