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New NASUWT president says her teacher defeated the hate of Enoch Powell
Rashida Din, new president of NASUWT

NEW NASUWT president Rashida Din thanked her English teacher today for inspiring her to succeed in the shadow of the emergence of the National Front in her native Luton.

She said it was an honour to address delegates as the union’s first Muslim president at the opening of its annual conference in Harrogate.

“We are the union of equality, diversity and breaking down barriers and that is why I stand before you today,” she said.

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