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Nigel Farage Insists Racism Allegations Against Him Will ‘Go Away’

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Nigel Farage has insisted the racism and antisemitism allegations against him will “go away” if he ever gets into No.10.

The Reform UK leader has been accused of referring to the Holocaust by saying “Hitler was right” and “gas them” to at least one Jewish pupil when he was studying at Dulwich College.

Farage has denied the allegations and repeatedly pointed out they occurred around 49 years ago.

The Guardian first reported on the fresh claims against the politician in November – but, on Times Radio on Wednesday, the MP for Clacton insisted the claims will “go away” in time.

“Once one person says something, you’ve got safety in numbers, you can say what you like. I deny it,” he began.

When Times Radio host Hugo Rifkind said there had been criticism from within the Jewish community that Farage had not taken the allegations seriously, the Reform UK leader said: “I don’t take lies seriously. No, I never have.”

He claimed he has been more scrutinised than anyone else in mainstream politics, and that he does not believe anything said by other party leaders said “nearly half a century ago” would come under this level of scrutiny.

Rifkind said: “You can either deny it or you can say it doesn’t matter because it was so long ago.

“The point is, these aren’t going to go away if and when you are prime minister –”

“Oh, they will go away,” Farage cut in. “Because they’re not true. they can’t be proved. And we’ve got more important things to talk about that what people did aged 13.”

Farage was also asked by ITV News today if he would apologise to those who have reported the allegations.

He said: “I don’t apologise for things that are completely made up fantasies. Some of what I heard was just absolute nonsense by people with – if you looked – absolutely obvious political motivations.”

Reform have led onto their steady lead in the opinion polls even after the Guardian’s story broke.

Farage even claimed last week that the claims against him could be boosting his party by “solidifying our core support”.

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Starmer Urged To Do More To Tackle Reform: ‘We Are At A Very Dangerous Moment’

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Keir Starmer needs a stronger plan to defeat the “existential threat” from populism, a former Labour strategist has warned.

Chris Powell, the advertising strategist who worked on Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory and brother to Starmer’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, said there was a “new and terrifying” problem facing the UK.

Writing for the Guardian, he said Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could represent a danger to democracy and national institutions.

He compared the up and coming right-wing party to populist parties seen around the world which have eroded political systems once they are in power.

Powell said: “Here in the UK, where is the urgently needed counter plan on a huge scale, to thwart and head off such an existential threat? It is simply not in place, nor does it appear to be even at the planning stage.

“We are at a very dangerous moment. We simply cannot afford to allow Reform UK to have a free run, and become established and entrenched as a credible potential government in the minds of disenchanted voters.”

He warned the longer Reform remain “unchallenged”, the more “unthreatening and risk-free” they appear to voters.

“Just hoping that Reform and Farage implode, or that the rightwing vote will somehow fracture, is potentially suicidal for our freedom and democracy,” Powell said.

The strategist acknowledged that Labour has started to take “small steps” to counter Reform, but called for them to go further.

He pointed to the “fundamental reset” New Labour planned in September 1995, when they were ahead in the polls.

He urged Starmer to focus on “fighting fire with fire on messaging, call out lies and expose Farage’s simplistic solutions”.

Urging a “top-to-bottom media and communications overhaul”, he said Starmer needs to show he is on voters’ side and develop a digital strategy to disrupt the populist narrative online.

Since Reform UK took the lead in the opinion polls, Starmer has acknowledged the party as the government’s main opposition – despite having just five MPs.

The prime minister has tried to take apart their policies on various occasions, memorably saying last month that a Reform government would “tear Britain apart”.

Ministers have also been more outspoken about the negative consequences of Brexit, which Eurosceptic Farage spent decades campaigning for.

However, YouGov’s latest polling shows Reform has consistently been in the lead since April and finished 2025 on 26%, while Labour and the Tories trailed on 19%.

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Farage Demands Apology From BBC For ‘Double Standards’ Over Racism Claims In Furious Rant

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Nigel Farage called for an apology from the BBC during a furious outburst at a press conference today.

BBC Radio 4′s Today co-host Emma Barnett also clashed with Reform deputy, Richard Tice, over what she called Farage’s “relationship” with Adolf Hitler on Thursday morning.

Responding to that interview, and the ongoing racism allegations, Farage told a BBC reporter: “I thought this morning’s performance by one of your lower-grade presenters [Emma Barnett] on the Today programme was utterly disgraceful.

“I think, to frame a question around the leader of Reform’s ‘relationship’ with Hitler, which is how she framed it, was despicable, disgusting beyond belief.

“Are you surprised that half a million people every year refuse to pay the licence fee?”

He continued: “The double standards and hypocrisy of the BBC are absolutely astonishing. The time I was alleged to have made these remarks, one of your most popular weekly shows was the ’Black and White Ministrel [Show].’”

This programme ran from 1958 to 1978 and was accused of using out-dated stereotypes towards the second half of its 20-year run.

He said: “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 also claimed he had received many letters from former school peers from his time at Dulwich College, and read one out during the press conference.

The contemporary, who was not named, supposedly said Farage had just used “schoolboy banter”, which was occasionally offensive but “never with malice”.

When the BBC reporter tried to circle back to his original question about the accuracy of the claims against him, Farage just moved on to a different press question.

He told the reporter: “Until you apologise for all of your [BBC] output, your appalling output at the same that I’m accused of saying these things that I deny – I’m not speaking to you.”

Asked if he was going to sue Barnett over defamation, he said such legal claims take up a lot of “emotional and legal capital”.

Listen to Barnett’s full exchange with Tice here:

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Emma Barnett: Do you think saying to a Jewish person that Hitler was right is direct racial abuse?

Richard Tice(Reform MP): Yes… I can’t believe anybody would have say that

EB: Including your leader?

RT: Yes… This is all made up twaddle… #r4today pic.twitter.com/ikNb4u7w5z

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) December 4, 2025

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Emma Barnett: Do you think saying to a Jewish person that Hitler was right is direct racial abuse?

Richard Tice(Reform MP): Yes… I can’t believe anybody would have say that

EB: Including your leader?

RT: Yes… This is all made up twaddle… #r4today pic.twitter.com/ikNb4u7w5z

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) December 4, 2025

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