Nigel Farage: what are schoolboy racism claims – and why have they resurfaced?

<p>David Lammy has clarified remarks that the Reform leader ‘flirted with Hitler Youth’. Here is the background to the row</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/01/keir-starmer-labour-conference-nigel-farage-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>The deputy prime minister, David Lammy, has found himself in hot water after claiming in an interview with the BBC that Nigel Farage “once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger”.</p><p>Sources at Farage’s Reform UK party responded by calling the comment “disgusting and libellous”. Lammy has clarified his remarks. “He [Farage] has denied it and so I accept that he has denied it and I would like to clarify that position because in the end the prime minister is keen for us to focus on the policies not the individuals,” Lammy said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/01/nigel-farage-what-are-schoolboy-racism-claims-why-have-they-resurfaced">Continue reading...</a>