Was Nigel Farage a racist schoolboy?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Prime Minister has called on Nigel Farage to explain the reports of racist comments the reform leader allegedly made as a school boy. Farage has denied making the comments and called the allegations “without foundation“.
The Guardian reported this week that he had picked on Jewish boys at Dulwich college when he was there at school and had sung offensive racist songs.
Much of their reporting had been aired a decade earlier by Michael Crick - broadcaster and Farage biographer. We invited him onto the Newsagents studio to ask if he thought Farage was racist then, and now?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Last week his leader said he didn't have time, didn't have time to condemn the racist comments of his fellow MP for Runkhorn. |
| 0:18.8 | He also said he didn't have time to condemn his party |
| 0:22.8 | called children in care evil. He didn't have time. I wonder if he can ask his leader |
| 0:28.4 | next door to him whether he's got time for his explanation for the stories in today's papers. |
| 0:33.9 | That is Kier Stama, calling on the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to explain accusations |
| 0:41.0 | made by fellow students that he displayed racist behaviour when he was at school as a teenager. |
| 0:48.4 | This is a story that the Guardian has been carrying in the last few days. |
| 0:59.0 | And Kirstama is asking Farage to explain what happened. |
| 1:01.9 | Farage has denied all those allegations. More than a dozen former classmates claim that Farage made repeated remarks as a schoolboy, |
| 1:07.5 | such as Hitler was right and guessed them, directing them at Jewish pupils. What should |
| 1:13.4 | we make of this story? Does it prove anything about Farage now? And does it matter what he said |
| 1:19.6 | then, if he said it at all? Welcome to the news Agents. |
| 1:29.6 | The News Agents. |
| 1:30.3 | It's Emily. |
| 1:31.0 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:37.2 | And on today's episode, we're going to try and get to the bottom of three things. |
| 1:44.3 | Namely, what did Farage say at school in Dulwich when he was a late teenager? |
| 1:46.3 | What does he admit to saying? |
| 1:48.2 | What does he deny having said? |
| 1:54.1 | And does it make any difference to how people see the reform leader now? |
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