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The United Kingdom's attorney general, Richard Hermer, has demanded Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who assert he racially abused them during their school days.

Hermer remarked that Farage had "clearly deeply hurt" many people, judging by their accounts of his past behaviour. He commented that the leader's "shifting" denials had been unconvincing.

“Throughout his answers to legitimate questions, not once has Farage genuinely condemned antisemitism,” Hermer told a publication.

New Allegations Emerge

A published report last month documented the testimony of more than a dozen former classmates of Farage from Dulwich College.

One, a former pupil, said that a teenage Farage "would sidle up to me and utter: ‘The Nazi leader was correct’ or ‘gas them’, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers”.

Another student of colour claimed that when he was roughly nine years old, he was singled out by a older Farage.

“He walked up to a pupil flanked by two tall mates and addressed anyone looking ‘different’,” the former student said. “That happened to me on three occasions; asking me where I was from, and motioning, saying: ‘That’s the way back,’ to wherever you replied you were from.”

After the story broke, additional individuals have stepped forward; approximately twenty people have now alleged they were either targets of or witnesses to deeply offensive actions by Farage.

The incidents they outlined cover the period when Farage was aged a teenager.

Denials and Shifting Positions

The political figure has disputed that anything he did was "explicitly" racist or antisemitic, and has suggested the accusers were misremembering.

Observers have highlighted that Farage has neglected to condemn antisemitism and other forms of racism in a wider sense in his denials.

They also point to his reluctance to reprimand a party member, Sarah Pochin, after she complained about the number of ethnic minorities she saw in adverts. She later apologised for the statements.

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

He added: “Arguing that 20 people have all misremembered the same things about his offensive behaviour simply is not believable."

Call for Leadership

“If he aspires to be seen as a credible figure for prime minister, he urgently needs confront the anxieties of the Jewish people, and apologise to the numerous individuals he has clearly deeply hurt by his behaviour,” Hermer said.

“Racism in all its forms is abhorrent to the values of this country and we should not let it to ever become accepted in public life.”

In a other comments, Rachel Reeves said Farage should “say something” if he wanted to be considered a genuine leader.

“It is very telling how little he has to say, and the very careful language that both you and I would identify as being drafted in a particular way to say something, but also dodge the issue,” she noted.

Formal Denials and Subsequent Comments

In legal letters prior to the publication of the investigation, Farage’s lawyers claimed that “the allegation that Mr Farage ever was involved in, approved of, or led such conduct is strongly rejected”.

Farage later altered his position in an interview, saying: “Have I said things decades ago that you could interpret as being teenage humour, you could interpret in a modern light today in a certain manner? Possibly.”

He said that he had “not ever purposely sought to go and upset anybody”. Farage later issued 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.”