The sex education debate in Britain is “obsessing on gender queer theory,” putting children “at risk of sexualisation” at an early age, UKIP's education spokesman said.

David Kurten condemned the teaching of "non-reproductive sexual acts, sex-change operations or gender fluidity" to school pupils under the age of 16.

“We must protect our children from damaging and confusing fringe ideologies which sexualise children at an early age and confuse their natural development as boys and girls – both in primary, secondary and even pre-schools,” Kurten said at a press conference in London yesterday, according to TES.