"Before publication, a Reform UK spokesperson told the Guardian the claims were entirely without foundation. But Farage adopted a slightly different line when he was questioned by Gareth Lewis, BBC Wales's political editor, who was conducting a pooled interview (ie, one for use by all media outlets). Farage was still quite dismissive but, when pressed as to whether he ever racially abused other pupils at school, he replied: Not with intent."
"On Friday Nathan Gill, the former Reform UK leader in Wales, was sentenced to 10 and a half years in jail for taking bribes, when he was an MEP, to make speeches favourable to Russia, and Farage was also asked what he was doing to establish if other Brexit party MEPs had been offered bribes in the same way. (Gill was a Brexit party MEP when he took the bribes, but the Brexit party later turned into Reform UK.)"
Nigel Farage faced allegations that multiple people recall him making racist or antisemitic comments as a pupil at Dulwich College in the late 1970s and 1980s. A Reform UK spokesperson had previously described the claims as entirely without foundation. In a pooled BBC Wales interview with Gareth Lewis Farage expressed dismissal but, when pressed about racially abusing pupils, replied "Not with intent." A longer clip of the interview was broadcast on the Today programme. Former Reform UK figure Nathan Gill was sentenced to 10½ years for taking bribes as an MEP to make speeches favourable to Russia, and Farage said he lacked investigatory powers to pursue others.
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