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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Nigel Farage aide dismisses alleged racism as ‘playground banter’

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage has insisted that while he might have said offensive things it was ‘never with malice’. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

One of Nigel Farage’s key aides has suggested the Reform UK leader was involved in “playground arguments or banter” when he allegedly made racist and antisemitic comments while at school.

Danny Kruger, who has been preparing Reform’s possible programme for government since defecting from the Conservatives, also said he was relieved that Farage was facing so much scrutiny about his behaviour as a teenager because it meant he was not being attacked for his present-day politics.

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