Suella Braverman has vowed to ban social and gender transitioning in schools under a Reform UK government.

Nigel Farage unveiled the former Tory Home Secretary as his Party's Shadow Education Secretary.

She said: "‘Social and gender transitioning will be absolutely banned in all schools, no ifs, no buts."

The Government published long-awaited guidance setting out how schools should respond to pupils questioning their gender identity earlier this month.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it aimed to provide pragmatic advice for headteachers and to not use the gender issue as a “political football”.

It will mean primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns at school.

The guidance will be embedded into “Keeping Children Safe in Education”, the statutory safeguarding framework that schools must follow, after a ten-week consultation.

Reform UK would also “repeal the Equality Act” on day one if it wins the next election, Mrs Braverman announced.

Speaking at an event in London, Mrs Braverman said Britain was being “ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion” policies, and the party would scrap the equalities minister.

She said: “Why does no one in this Government seem to care that it’s white working-class boys who have the worst educational outcomes in our country today?

“Do you know what a Reform government will do? Well, on day one, we will get rid of the equalities department, we will scrap the equalities minister.

“And we will repeal the Equality Act, because we are going to work to build a country defined by meritocracy not tokenism, personal responsibility not victimhood, excellence not mediocrity, and unity not division.”