Is Farage right to claim that racism allegations are response to a dislike of his politics?

Nigel Farage snaps at a reporter who questions him over allegations of racism as a schoolboy at a Reform UK press conference. Photograph: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Nigel Farage has again denied allegations of racism as a schoolboy and repeated his claim that some had been concocted because people disliked his politics.

During a press conference, he snapped at one reporter who asked about the issue, saying: “I think we’ve gone quite a long way towards answering all this, don’t you?”