Farage Biographer Says Reform Leader Has 'Totally Lost It' Over Racism Allegations

Nigel Farage has “totally lost it” over claims he racially abused fellow pupils when he was at school, according to his unofficial biographer.

Journalist Michael Crick said the Reform UK leader is “really really rattled in a way we’ve not seen before”.

The Guardian has published a wave of allegations against Farage over the way he allegedly behaved while attending Dulwich College when he was a teenager.

They include claims he said “Hitler was right” and “gas them” in reference to the Holocaust to at least one Jewish pupil.

Farage has denied the allegations, while also pointed out that they are said to have happened 49 years ago.

In a rant at a press conference last week, he also accused the BBC of “double standards’ for broadcasting programmes like ‘The Black And White Minstrel Show’ in the 1970s.

He also claimed he had received many letters from former schoolmates, and read one out during the press conference.

The pupil, who was not named, supposedly said Farage had just used “schoolboy banter”, which was occasionally offensive but “never with malice”.

On Times Radio on Sunday, Crick – author of ‘One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life Of Nigel Farage’ – said he had been shocked by the politician’s response to the racism allegations.

He said: “Farage’s responses to this have gone all over the place, like a wonky supermarket trolley with only three wheels.

“Some of the time he says ‘oh well, it was only banter’. He told me back in 2013 when I first put this stuff to him ‘of course I said some ridiculous things, not necessarily racist things’.

“At times he sort of accepts he said stuff he shouldn’t have done, and at other times he and his spokesman and his deputies say ‘no, he didn’t say anything like that whatsoever, everybody’s a liar’.

“And I think the whole way he’s responded to this shows him really really rattled in a way we’ve not seen before. He’s lost the Farage touch on this, I think he’s really worried that it’s going to grow and grow and grow.”

Crick added: “Altogether there are nearly 30 people who say that they were either abused by Farage or that they witnessed it.

“Now these cannot all be fiction, they cannot all be made up, and it’s getting worse and worse for Farage.

“I said a couple of weeks ago that Farage should have seized on this and said ’look, I don’t recall this myself, but the picture that people have painted here of me as a teenager is horrendous, I am deeply ashamed of that, but I assire you that the Farage of Dulwich College is not the Farage of today. He should jhave telephoned those victims one by one.

“But now he’s left that too late because he’s even started dismissing them.

“Farage is normally brilliant at handling these kind of things. On this issue he’s totally lost it and I don’t see where he goes from here. He’s pushed himself into a corner.”