David Lammy tells of ‘traumatic’ racial abuse in youth after Farage allegations

David Lammy: ‘That kind of treatment in teenage years is actually quite traumatic, very isolating.’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

David Lammy has spoken of his own “traumatic” experience of being racially abused at school as he called on Nigel Farage to apologise for comments he allegedly made while a teenager.

Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, said the testimony of more than 20 of the Reform leader’s school contemporaries of his racist and antisemitic behaviour was “deeply troubling”.