Reform UK would inform colleges to fly Union flag and show portrait of King | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Schools in England can be required to fly the Union flag and show a portrait of the King beneath a Reform UK authorities. In an announcement to coincide with St George’s Day, the social gathering additionally vowed to introduce a brand new patriotic curriculum if Nigel Farage wins the subsequent common election.

Reform’s training spokesperson Suella Braverman accused Labour and the Conservatives of pushing progressive narratives on pupils which go away them ashamed of Britain’s previous. She mentioned: “Tory and Labour governments have failed a generation of young people with a substandard curriculum that undermines academic rigour and national identity in favour of promoting their mass migration agenda. Reform will end this.

“As training secretary, I’ll introduce a brand new curriculum that may rekindle nationwide pleasure and be sure that each youngster leaves faculty with an understanding of what a privilege it’s to be British.”

Reform would supply funding for flagpoles for each faculty in England to lift the Union flag, and the St George’s flag if there are a number of flagpoles.

It would order each state faculty to mount the King’s portrait in an space seen to all college students.

And colleges in England can be required to honour St George’s Day on April 23.

The social gathering added that it will usher in the identical insurance policies in Scotland and Wales, the place training is devolved, if it wins energy there.

British historical past would kind a minimal of 60% of the assessed content material beneath plans for a brand new historical past curriculum with occasions corresponding to Magna Carta, the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Act of Union, the Enlightenment and Victorian Britain.

The social gathering mentioned it will embody the nation’s successes, failures and turning factors, and be neutral.

The training secretary can be given new powers to intervene the place this isn’t adopted.