Top Law Officer Demands Nigel Farage to Say Sorry Over Reported Antisemitic and Racist Behaviour.

The UK's top law officer, one of the most senior Jewish ministers, has called on Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who claim he racially abused them during their school days.

Hermer remarked that Farage had "obviously deeply hurt" many people, based on their testimonies of his past behaviour. He added that the leader's "evolving" explanations had been less than credible.

“During his answers to valid inquiries, not once has Farage truly condemned antisemitism,” Hermer informed a news outlet.

Further Testimonies Emerge

A series of inquiries last month documented the statements of over a dozen ex-pupils of Farage from Dulwich College.

One, a former pupil, recalled that a 13-year-old Farage "came up to me and growl: ‘The Nazi leader was correct’ or ‘gas them’, at times making a long hiss to simulate the sound of the Nazi gas chambers”.

Another pupil from an ethnic minority stated that when he was roughly nine years old, he was singled out by a older Farage.

“He walked up to a pupil accompanied by two tall mates and spoke to anyone looking ‘different’,” the person said. “That involved me on three occasions; inquiring where I was from, and motioning, saying: ‘That’s the way back,’ to any place you answered you were from.”

Since then, more people have come forward; approximately twenty people have now alleged they were either targets of or observed hurtful actions by Farage.

The incidents they outlined cover the period when Farage was aged 13 to 18.

Evolving Explanations

The political figure has denied that anything he did was "blatantly" racist or antisemitic, and has suggested the individuals were misremembering.

Critics have noted that Farage has failed to condemn antisemitism and other forms of racism in a wider sense in his statements.

They also reference his reluctance to discipline a colleague in his party, Sarah Pochin, after she complained about the number of ethnic minorities she saw in television commercials. She later said sorry for the remarks.

“Nigel Farage’s shifting account about his behaviour to his peers [is] not credible, to say the least,” Hermer stated.

He went on to say: “Suggesting that 20 people have somehow forgotten the same things about his nasty behaviour simply lacks credibility."

Demand for Accountability

“If he wants to be seen as a serious contender for high office, he has to address the concerns of the Jewish people, and apologise to the many people he has obviously deeply hurt by his behaviour,” Hermer stated.

“Prejudice in all its forms is anathema to the principles of this country and we should not let it to ever become legitimised in politics.”

In a other comments, a senior politician said Farage should “say something” if he wanted to look like a true statesman.

“It says a lot how very little he has to say, and the very careful language that both you and I would recognise as being crafted in a particular way to communicate, but also avoid saying certain things,” she remarked.

Legal Letters and Later Statements

In formal correspondence before the release of the investigation, Farage’s lawyers stated that “the implication that Mr Farage ever took part in, approved of, or led this behaviour is categorically denied”.

Farage later appeared to change his position in an discussion, saying: “Have I said things 50 years ago that you could view as being teenage humour, you could interpret in a contemporary context today in some sort of way? Yes.”

He added that he had “not once intentionally really tried to go and hurt anybody”. Farage subsequently put out a new statement: “I can tell you unequivocally that I did not say the things that have been published when I was 13, decades in the past.”