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Schools in England would be required to fly the Union flag and display a portrait of the King under a Reform UK government. In an announcement to coincide with St George’s Day, the party also vowed to introduce a new patriotic curriculum if Nigel Farage wins the next general election.

Reform’s education spokesperson Suella Braverman accused Labour and the Conservatives of pushing progressive narratives on pupils which leave them ashamed of Britain’s past. She said: “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 education secretary, I will introduce a new curriculum that will rekindle national pride and ensure that every child leaves school with an understanding of what a privilege it is to be British.”

Reform would provide funding for flagpoles for every school in England to raise the Union flag, and the St George’s flag if there are multiple flagpoles.

It would order every state school to mount the King’s portrait in an area visible to all students.

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

The party added that it would bring in the same policies in Scotland and Wales, where education is devolved, if it wins power there.

British history would form a minimum of 60% of the assessed content under plans for a new history curriculum with events such as Magna Carta, the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Act of Union, the Enlightenment and Victorian Britain.

The party said it would include the country’s successes, failures and turning points, and be impartial.

The education secretary would be given new powers to intervene where this is not followed.