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Farage's Victory Could Revive Grammar Schools Debate

3/5/2026

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  • Reform UK would introduce new grammar schools if Nigel Farage wins the next general election.
  • The party, with Suella Braverman as Reform UK's education spokeswoman, supports selective education and aims to lift the 1998 ban on new grammar schools.
  • Current grammar schools can expand.
  • New grammar schools could be created as free schools.
  • Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and education unions oppose selective education, and the debate intensifies.