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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar Political editor

Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism

Nigel Farage in suit and tie with slightly-parted lips
The Reform UK leader has denied anything he did was ‘directly’ racist or antisemitic after claims from former classmates at Dulwich College. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

The UK’s top law officer, one of the most senior Jewish government ministers, has urged Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school.

The attorney general, Richard Hermer, said Farage had “clearly deeply hurt” many people judging by their descriptions of his behaviour, and that his “constantly changing” denials had been unconvincing.

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