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A Reform UK government would require every school to mount a picture of the King, fly the Union flag and would introduce “patriotic” history classes.

The party has announced a string of education policies to coincide with St George’s Day, which they say will restore “national pride” to the curriculum.

It has criticised history being taught through a “progressive lens” and said a new curriculum would be implemented in its first 100 days of government if elected.

The party insists that the subject should reflect a “patriotic history of the British Isles” without being framed in “modern narratives”.

The NEU teaching union previously warned that a Reform UK government would make education a “hostile place” for many children.

Reform UK proposes ‘patriotic’ history curriculum

Reform wants pupils in England to cover events such as the Magna Carta, the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Acts of Union, the Age of Enlightenment and Victorian Britain.

These are all topics that fall within the time periods already covered in GCSE history by exam boards across England.

British history would form a minimum of 60 per cent of the subject’s assessed content, with the education secretary given powers to intervene “where this is not followed”, the party said.

Suella Braverman, Reform UK’s education spokesperson, 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.”

Schools to fly the Union flag

The party has also indicated that every school will be required to fly the Union flag, honour St George’s Day in England and mount a visible portrait of King Charles in a communal space.

Education leaders have previously told ����Vlog they have been left “staggered” and concerned by the growing presence of St George’s flags, which sparked broader debates around race and national identity.

Reform also said that funding would be provided for Scottish and Welsh schools to fly the Union flag along with their national flags, but acknowledged that education is a devolved area of government.

The party pointed to a government scheme in 2024, when every state-funded school in the country was offered a portrait of the King, but .