Stated position 09 of 10

Education

The education objective combines practical schools measures with a programme for reshaping what universities teach. The phrase “pro-British” is the party's own; what it would mean in statute is the central question for a careful reader.

Primary sourceThe policy paper

Attribution matters: this page summarises the Restore Britain policy paper titled “Restore a Pro-British Education System”, dated 13 February 2026. The headline wording and framing are the party’s own; the summary below reports the published position and does not ask the reader to accept its diagnosis, evidence or remedy without checking the sources.

What the paper publishes

The proposals, in summary.

Condensed from the policy paper. Wording in quotation marks is the paper’s own; everything else is this site’s plain-English summary of it.

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  • Promote apprenticeships and practical skills as alternatives to traditional university degrees.
  • End term-time holiday fines, allowing up to five school days per year for family trips.
  • Reorient universities to be openly pro-British, rejecting trends the paper describes as anti-British and anti-Western.
  • Remove academics at publicly funded institutions whom the paper characterises as pushing anti-British ideology.
  • Close courses the paper says teach students to reject their own culture.
The paper in full

The complete text, as published.

Reproduced verbatim from the Restore Britain policy paper dated 13 February 2026 so the position can be read whole, not just in summary. Every claim, figure and turn of phrase below is the party’s own; only the formatting has been simplified.

Original pagerestorebritain.org.uk

Deliver an Education System That Teaches, Respects, and Celebrates British History and Equips Students with Practical Skills.

A Restore Britain government would encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some bogus university degree.

It is important that less academically inclined children at school are able to learn life skills that they will actually need in modern society.

End School Holiday Fines

Families should have the freedom to take children on meaningful trips inside term time without being fined by the state, for up to five school days a year.

Parents should be trusted to act in the interests of their own children. Five days a year will not ruin their education, but it will give children irreplaceable life experience that cannot be gained in the classroom.

Many families can only afford holidays in term time. The current system punishes those who work hard but can’t pay school holiday premiums.

It is not the business of the state to micromanage family life.

Restore the University

Britain is home to some of the world’s oldest and most prestigious universities. We should be setting global standards in research and academic excellence – but instead of pursuing truth, our high-culture institutions have been totally captured by anti-British, anti-Western, and anti-white ideological trends such as decolonisation, intersectionality, and critical race theory.

This does not serve the interests of the British public. In fact, it is in academia that so many of the destructive ideas that have come to dominate our culture and political life originate, from gender ideology to multiculturalism.

There is no such thing as a neutral institution – and this goes for education. Our universities should be openly pro-British: proud of our history, proud of our culture, proud of our people.

We should not be afraid of rooting out subversive elements within our education system. Professors and administrative staff pushing anti-British ideology should hold no position in a publicly funded British university. Courses that brainwash students into hating their own culture should be shut down. In the most egregious cases, inquiries pertaining to entire universities must be held.

The stated diagnosis

The problem as the party frames it.

The paper asserts that universities have been captured by ideological movements it names as decolonisation, intersectionality and critical race theory, and that these ideas flow outward into culture and politics.

The proposals to remove staff and close courses sit in visible tension with existing academic-freedom law — notably the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 — which is why the regulator and the legislation are linked below.

How to test this position

  1. 1
    Define the test

    Who decides what counts as “anti-British” teaching, under what statutory definition, and with what appeal process?

  2. 2
    Read the existing law

    How do dismissals on ideological grounds interact with academic-freedom protections and employment law?

  3. 3
    Check the schools evidence

    What does Department for Education attendance data show about term-time absence and attainment?

  4. 4
    Track the record

    Compare with Mr Lowe's Commons contributions on education.

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Sources for this position

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