Nigel Farage laid out his plans for government with a promise to back the “little man and woman”, end wokery and make Brexit a success.

The Reform UK leader said the army needs to be stripped of political correctness and understand it is “there to kill people”.

He vowed to stop children being “poisoned” about British history in the classroom and said he would reinstall the sense that hard work is the key to success.

In an interview with the Daily Expresso, our new weekday news show, Mr Farage said: “We’re very much on the side of the little man, little woman. There’s five and a half million small businesses in Britain.

“No one has done them any favours, they’ve been punished and penalised for a very, very long time.

“I think in terms of the armed forces we want all the wokery gone, out.

“The army is there to kill people, that’s actually what it’s there for, defend the country and kill people.

“And education needs absolute wholesale reform. I’ve really had enough of our kids in too many schools being poisoned about this country, its history, what it’s all about, and a much bigger emphasis on trades and skills, as opposed to degrees in social sciences, which very often don’t help a person in the workplace.

“There’s just a few little ideas we put out there.

“We also want to reverse the flow of high taxpayers out of Britain. If the very richest people who pay the biggest taxes leave the country, it is everybody else who has got to pay more. “We’ve launched a proposed bill on cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

“One in four people under 30 is involved in that world in some way. Westminster has completely ignored the whole thing.

“We want to bring back manufacturing. I mean, there’s a very, very long list of things that we have campaigned on.

“Now, generally with the public, most of them are too busy living their lives to read every detail.

“They generally identify political parties with one big major cause, and if the one big major cause they identify us with is the immigration issue, firstly, because of the unfairness and potential risk of illegal immigration, risk to women and girls on our streets, risk to national security because we’ve no idea who these young men are, and if they also link us to illegal immigration which has seen a population explosion – I mean, just look at the roads. You can’t move anywhere during the month of August. Look at the housing crisis – so if we’re identified with that and all the knock on effects of that, that’s not a bad thing.”

Asked if Brexit would finally play out how it was supposed to if he wins, Mr Farage replied: “Yes. I think it’s very disappointing. Boris rode off the back of Brexit. He got into Number 10 with a big majority at that election and did nothing with it.

“Now they blamed covid but I’m not sure. I think the establishment governing Tory party, they never believed in it.

“For most of them a damage limitation exercise rather than opportunity. I think the betrayal of people like our fishing communities, to allow the foreign boats access within our six and 12 mile area for another 11 years, it’s just one example of how we could have done so much better with it. And now Starmer is doing everything he can to incrementally reverse Brexit bit by bit.”

Mr Farage said his party conference in Birmingham tomorrow (FRI) will be a “consolidation” of the promises he made at last year’s event.

Hinting at the possibility of big name defections at the gathering, he said there will be “one or two people who join us”.

The conference will be about “learning the lessons” of May 1 when Reform made major gains in English county elections to apply them for polls in Scotland, Wales and London next year.

Mr Farage promised genuine change under a Reform government and vowed to bring about a shift in attitudes in the country.

“On the economics of things, I just think we have to re-instill a sense, particularly among young people, that hard work is the only way you’re going to have any success in life. So attitudinal change is important,” he said.

Mr Farage said Reform, which only has four MPs, will bring in successful leaders in different fields to be ministers.

“I think the types of people that we will choose to be ministers will be different. Will drag in many talents from outside parliament.

“The idea that all you ministers have to be MPs. Why? Well, because we always done it like this.

“Right. So why can’t I do it differently? So we’re thinking about things in a very, very different way.”