"Nigel Farage has denied saying anything racist with malice in his latest attempt to address allegations of abuse made by numerous of his contemporaries at school. The Reform leader declined to call his accusers liars, but lost his cool as he turned his fire on the BBC for questioning him about alleged antisemitic comments. He became increasingly angry as was asked by the BBC about his deputy leader, Richard Tice, saying the testimony of his former classmates was made-up twaddle and lies."
"I cannot put up with the double standards of the BBC about what I'm alleged to have said 49 years ago, and what you were putting out on mainstream content. So I want an apology from the BBC for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 80s, he said, referencing comedian Bernard Manning and the fictional character Alf Garnett, as well as The Black and White Minstrel Show."
Nigel Farage denied making racist remarks with malice while responding to multiple allegations from former schoolmates about abusive comments. He declined to call accusers liars but reacted angrily to BBC questioning about alleged antisemitic comments and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it despicable. He criticized presenter Emma Barnett and accused the BBC of double standards for airing 1970s–1980s programmes now considered racist, demanding an apology for that programming. He read a letter from a former Dulwich College classmate who said schoolboy banter was sometimes offensive but never malicious.
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