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Can Farage survive racism and antisemitism allegations? – The Latest

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The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice says allegations of racism from Nigel Farage’s school days are ‘made-up twaddle’. Lucy Hough speaks to investigations correspondent Henry Dyer -- Watch Today in Focus: The Latest on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.0

The accusation suggests a track record of racist and anti-Semitic behaviour by Varage while he was at Dulwich.

0:13.1

Categorically on the record, you did not racially abuse fellow people.

0:16.1

I would never, ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way.

0:19.5

The questions keep coming for Nigel Farage over allegations of racism and anti-Semitism

0:24.6

during his school days.

0:26.3

More people have now come forward.

0:28.7

But speaking to the BBC, Farage's reform UK deputy says it's all made up.

0:33.7

This is all made up twaddled by people who don't want Nigel to be Prime Minister of the country.

0:38.2

Funny how they didn't remember this three years ago, six years ago, ten years ago.

0:42.0

When you have someone who says, none of this happened, and the people around him are saying,

0:46.9

none of this happened and the people who say it is a liars.

0:49.6

But then there are more than two dozen people who recall otherwise.

0:52.4

That's difficult to square.

0:53.8

From the Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

1:00.0

And I'm joined by Henry Dyer, Investigations correspondent at The Guardian, and Henry,

1:04.2

you've been working on this story for some weeks now. Henry, since you first reported this on

1:09.0

the 18th of November, along with your colleague, Dan Buffy, the story has continued to expand and more people have come forward, right?

1:17.2

Yeah, so Dan and I, along with Mark Blacklock, who's been working on this story with us, we've still had other boys come forward from Dulwich College who were there at school with Farage at that time in

1:28.1

the late 1970s, early 1980s. And many of them are coming forward and saying that they corroborate

1:36.2

what's happening and they're doing so in the face of denials from Farage and today and recently

1:41.2

from Richard Tice. Yeah, which will come to. And so they're saying, and many of them on the record,

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