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Politics Weekly UK

Farage under attack: will it damage Reform UK?

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John Harris speaks to Yinka Bankole about his treatment as a nine-year-old at Dulwich college when Nigel Farage was a prefect. Plus, Kiran Stacey and John discuss whether Reform UK supporters will start to feel uneasy about the allegations of racism against Farage. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:11.2

The walk en route towards me is the same walk he has now.

0:15.2

So when you see it on TV now, it's just triggers all sorts.

0:20.5

Yenka Bankele felt targeted by Nigel Farage when they were pupils at Dulwich College.

0:25.6

He says he was told to go back to Africa.

0:28.7

This is one part of the biggest crisis Farage has faced since he became a politician.

0:33.6

Will it damage him in his party?

0:35.3

I'm John Harris and you're listening to Politics Week in the UK for Begarnia.

0:41.1

Every week, every day, it feels like there's a news story about Nigel Farage, but there are reasons for that.

0:46.7

The government's latest move on European human rights law, I suppose, is proof of how influential he is.

0:51.8

And we now learn that it's an avowed aim of Donald Trump's America

0:54.9

to help populist politicians like him into power.

0:58.7

But we're going to start with the news story Farage is probably less keen on.

1:02.1

The latest instalment in the story of who he was before he became a politician,

1:06.2

which you've probably read about in The Guardian.

1:08.5

Yinka Bankele originally spoke to The Guardian about his recollections of Farage's alleged

1:12.7

racist behaviour anonymously, but he then felt compelled to speak on the record.

1:18.2

And he's here with me now.

1:19.5

Hello, Yinka.

1:20.1

Hi.

1:20.9

I wanted to start by getting a sense of what life was like for you as a nine-year-old,

1:25.2

having just joined Dulwich College in 1980. Just give us a sense of what

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