Overview
- Eleven Holocaust survivors asked Nigel Farage to state whether he used phrases such as “Hitler was right” and “gas them” at school and to apologize if he did.
- Nigel Farage rejected the allegations as politically driven, said he never said anything racist with malice, and described past remarks as playground banter.
- At a London press conference he demanded an apology from the BBC for 1970s–80s programming, refused a BBC question, and repeatedly shouted “Bernard Manning” at journalists.
- Farage read a letter from an unnamed Jewish former classmate saying he never heard racial abuse from Farage and characterizing school culture then as offensive humor without malice.
- The Guardian, BBC and The Times report corroborating accounts from more than 20 former pupils and at least one teacher, while Labour and Conservative figures criticized Farage’s response and Reform’s Richard Tice called the accusations “made-up twaddle.”