Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims

Following protests from 20 people he went to school with, reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said he has

never specifically abused anyone. Farage was the subject of an AGuardian probe into contemporaries at Dulwich College, who reportedly made racist and antisemitic remarks to them, which a Farage, 61, who spoke directly to a journalist about the allegations for the first time, was asked

directlyand replied:By taking it out on an individual based on who they are or what they are. Following the detention of former Welsh Reform UK leader Nathan Gill for taking pro-Russian bribes, he also ruled out an investigation into his own party.

Farage joked about gas chambers and put another pupil in detention, when he was a prefect, for the color of their skin. Farage replied when asked about the allegations:

I said things 50 years ago that you could interpret as being banter in a playground, so you could see in the modern light of day in some manner. Yes.

I've never specifically abused anyone,

he said. No. Farage also denied being part of a militant group or engaged in direct, unpleasant personal harassment, real abuse on that basis, pointing to

political differenceswith some of his school classmates. Farage said,I would never, ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way

if he said categorically that he did not racially assault fellow students.

I asked if he had perhaps told peers that he did not mean to be hurtful or racist, but they didn't want to be cruel or racial,the teacher said,I hope not.

When asked whether he had said things at school that people might have objected to,

he replied: Without a shadow of a doubt.And without a shadow of a doubt, I'll say things tonight on this stage that some people will object to and use pejorative terms.

In some ways, that is actually what open free speech is all about. People don't like certain things.

I'm not sorry, I'm sorry because I don't think I did something that specifically hurt anyone," Farage answered when asked if he'd apologize to the people who said he had screamed out for them.

Farage, an MEP from 1999 to 2020, was also asked about his former UKIP MEP colleague Nathan Gill, who was suspended for ten and a half years last Friday after admitting to taking bribes to make pro-Russian interviews and statements while an MEC. Gill first became a UKIP MEP in 2014, then became firmly associated with the party as it entered Reform UK in 2020, and becoming the party's leader in 2021, but he failed to be re-elected shortly afterwards. Gill was briefly. Leader of Reform Wales in Llandudno, north Wales, according to Farage, who spoke at a Reform UK rally. Gill's

taking bribes is of course an absolute and complete disgrace,

he said. We condemn his conduct and deny him anything.If he wanted to look into any other Russian links within his organisation, he said no, I'm not a police force, I haven't got the funds,says Farage in a separate interview.He said he thinks there should be a larger probe into Russian and Chinese meddling in British politics, and that MI5 should investigate it. Farage said he was as confident as I can be that no one else in Reform past or present had done similar things to the former Welsh leader, referring to the issue as a very minor embarrassment for Reform.I'm very surprised about Gill

– he was in UKIP for a long time, but his time in reform was short, according to him.

I've had no contact with him, and no one in my leadership team has expressed any concern with him.

Asked if that meant he could not rule out the fact that there may be people in the party who may have spoken to him after his detention,

he said.

The Reform leader's refusal to deny that he made the remarks is uncalled for by someone who wants to be our next prime minister,

Responding to the allegations of bigotry during Farage's schooldays. The British people deserve a straight answer.It seems that the mask has disappeared, and the truth-of-the-case is that the fumes-Nigel is turning into

You can racially assault people without it being hurtful and insulting,

Nigel Farage said. Farage's Lord Mike Katz, a Labour peer and former Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, called on Farage to come clean about the allegations, adding that

failure to do so would be yet more proof that Farage is clearly unfit for office.

Just when you thought Nigel Farage couldn't sink any lower, he's trying to say that abhorrent racial remarks, including vile antisemitic insults, doesn't "He seems to believe that you can racially hurt people without it being hurtful or insulting. Let's be crystal clear: you can't.

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