Lammy backtracks on Farage Hitler Youth claim
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Lammy backtracks on Farage Hitler Youth claim
"It's disgusting and libellous. Beneath contempt."
"It's not British. It doesn't respect our values. "I'm not going to play the man. I'm playing the ball, as our leader did. "I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgements about someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger."
"with everything we have"
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy retracted a remark linking Nigel Farage to having once "flirted with Hitler Youth" after Farage denied the allegation. The allegation originally emerged in 2013, centring on claims that Farage and others marched through a village shouting Nazi songs as a schoolboy; Farage denied the claim at the time. A Reform UK source called the allegation "disgusting and libellous." Sir Keir Starmer described Reform UK's policy on scrapping indefinite leave to remain as "racist" and "immoral." The prime minister accused Reform UK of stirring division and vowed to fight racist rhetoric "with everything we have."
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