David Lammy Forced To Climb Down After Accusing Nigel Farage Of 'Flirting With Hitler Youth'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68dbf968140000d5785c6800.jpeg?cache=IqQ5ERtajO&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="David Lammy and other members of the cabinet prepare to listen to Keir Starmer's speech to the Labour conference." data-caption="David Lammy and other members of the cabinet prepare to listen to Keir Starmer's speech to the Labour conference." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />David Lammy and other members of the cabinet prepare to listen to Keir Starmer's speech to the Labour conference.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="news/david-lammy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">David Lammy </a>has climbed down after accusing <a href="news/nigel-farage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nigel Farage</a> of “flirting with Hitler Youth when he was younger” </p><p>The deputy prime minister made the incendiary allegation after Farage said <a href="news/keir-starmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keir Starmer</a><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-accuses-keir-starmer-of-inciting-violence-against-reform_uk_68dbedb6e4b003b6c8dc24b7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was inciting violence</a> against his party’s supporters.</p><p>He was referring to historic allegations by one of Farage’s former teachers that he had “marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs” as a schoolboy.</p><p>In 2013, Farage described the claims as “complete baloney”.</p><p>In his keynote speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool, Starmer told the Reform leader his party <a href="https://www.hu