Claims that Nigel Farage was a racist bully in his schooldays appear to have left most voters unmoved, according to an opinion poll for The Independent. The survey by JL Partners found that, while a few respondents said the allegations had changed their view of the Reform leader from positive to negative, just as many had changed their mind in the opposite direction.
The net effect is that Mr Farage’s standing with the electorate is broadly unchanged. More people have a negative opinion of him than a positive one, but he is less unpopular than Sir Keir Starmer and is rated about equally with Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the official opposition.
