Reform UK’s deputy leader says racism claims about Nigel Farage from fellow pupils are ‘made-up twaddle’ – UK politics live

Richard Tice claims that allegations against Farage are ‘nonsense’ from people with ‘a political axe to grind’Labour has described Richard Tice’s claim that the people saying Nigel Farage was racist or antisemtic towards them when he was a teenager at school are lying (see 9.22am) as “deplorable”.Anna Turley, the Labour chair, issued this statement after the Tice interview on the Today programme.It took serious courage for the victims of Nigel Farage’s alleged racism to come forward and tell their story.It’s utterly deplorable that Richard Tice has dismissed this and suggested they are lying, despite Farage himself refusing to offer a categorical denial and saying he couldn’t remember everything that happened at school. Continue reading...