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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey, Pippa Crerar, Henry Dyer, Chris Osuh and Geneva Abdul

No 10 calls on Farage to urgently address ‘disturbing allegations’ of past racist behaviour

Nigel Farage
Farage has issued a blanket denial that he behaved in a way that was antisemitic or racist as a teenager. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to urgently address multiple and detailed allegations of racist behaviour during his teenage years, as the Reform leader attempted to dismiss the claims as “one person’s word against another”.

Pressure was put on Farage by the prime minister over what Downing Street said were “disturbing allegations” after the Guardian reported the testimony of more than a dozen school contemporaries, including an award-winning director who claimed to have been targeted with antisemitic abuse.

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