"If he was here right now, I'd want to know if that racist mindset of 13/14, and right up to the end of his Dulwich career, the age of 18, that, that racist mindset, does it have a role to play in his statements about rounding up and wanting to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants, including people with legally settled status? I'd want to know that, and I think that's a very important question"
"The concern among a number of the group of school contemporaries who spoke to the Guardian is the blanket denial made by aides to Farage to the allegations. The wholesale rejection of the claims appears to be a change of tack by Farage, who had responded differently to allegations reported by Channel 4's Michael Crick in 2013 of racism. Back then he claimed he may have said some ridiculous things not necessarily racist things it depends on how you define it."
Cabinet ministers described detailed allegations of teenage racism by Nigel Farage as repulsive and demanded he address the claims. Around 20 former schoolmates claim they witnessed or were victims of abusive behaviour by Farage at Dulwich College in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Aides to Farage dismissed the allegations as entirely without foundation and characterised them as one person's word against another. Contemporaries expressed concern about the blanket denial. The wholesale rejection marks a shift from Farage's 2013 response, and at least one accuser questioned whether a persistent racist mindset influenced his stance on deporting migrants.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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