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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey, Mark Blacklock and Henry Dyer

‘He used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school

Jean-Pierre Lihou with a collection of Dulwich college memorabilia; he sits at a table in a smart, modern kitchen. He has short fair hair and wears a black polo shirt, with glasses balanced on his head.
Nigel Farage is now ‘enabling people to be basically openly racist’, said Jean-Pierre Lihou, who spoke of their school days together. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

It had been a fun sleepover at Nigel Farage’s house and Jean-Pierre Lihou, a teenager with an appetite, was delighted with his schoolfriend’s mother’s hospitality. “I remember the fantastic cooked English breakfast, as opposed to what you get at a boarding house on a morning,” Lihou recalled. “I was a boarder and he was a day boy,” he said of their education at Dulwich college in south-east London.

Farage was a great mimic, and funny with it, Lihou said. But over time he found there was a darker side to his 14-year-old friend.

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