Caroline Stephens, who has also acted as a freelance consultant for the Personal Finance Education Group, is hoping to become one of the country’s first Ukip MPs by representing the party in Stroud, where she is already chairman of the local constituency group.

Ms Stephens said: “We have yet to prepare the local manifesto, which will be announced at our annual conference in Doncaster in September. But Ukip has already asked me to be its representative in a forthcoming meeting with adult education charities, as they know I have extensive expertise in that area.

Ms Stephens said she is set to stand on a pro-grammar school platform, one of Ukip’s “biggest selling points”, as she sets out to ringfence the area’s existing grammar schools and promote them as a “vehicle for social mobility”.

BACKGROUND

Recently, Stephen Woolfe, the party’s aspiring shadow chancellor, set out his financial manifesto following his success in the European Parliament elections last month.

The newly elected member for the north east of England, who is also a financial services lawyer, has now appointed Hertfordshire-based adviser Mark Hughes to advise him on pensions policy.