The Soft Return of Blasphemy Laws By Lauren Smith — December 9, 2025

European Conservative : A teacher has been sacked for reminding his pupils that Britain is a Christian country. In modern Britain, even the mildest statement of reality can be enough to trigger a punitive pile-on.

The Telegraph reported yesterday that a teacher was sacked, and very nearly banned from working with children, because he told his primary-school pupils that the UK was a Christian country.<

The anonymous teacher found himself being referred to his local child-protection board and even at the centre of a police investigation after he told Muslim children off for washing their feet in the sinks of school bathrooms. According to one child who made a complaint against the teacher, he reminded the children that this was not a religious school, and that they were free to attend an Islamic school a mile away if they wanted to. 

He apparently also told them that Britain is still a Christian state and pointed out that the King was head of the Church of England. This was followed up in the classroom by a lesson about the importance of British values and tolerance. 

In response, the teacher was suspended by the school and ultimately sacked in March last year. A month later, he was referred to both the safeguarding board and the Metropolitan Police, for them to investigate an alleged hate crime. The police investigation was fortunately dropped, but the safeguarding board still decided to ban him from working with children in future. 

The safeguarding officer involved in the case managed to reach the conclusion that, by informing children that Islam was a minority religion in the UK, he had inflicted emotional harm. Thankfully, he was able to appeal the ban and won, and is now suing the local authority with the help of the Free Speech Union (FSU).

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