Nigel Farage has denied – albeit through a spokesperson – that he ever said anything racist or antisemitic when he was a teenager.

The Guardian has spoken to 20 of his contemporaries while at Dulwich College in south London who say otherwise – more than half of them on the record.

So, who is telling the truth? That has become the crux of the row that has engulfed the leader of Reform UK .

His spokesperson insists “there is no primary evidence. It’s one person’s word against another” and has accused the Guardian of seeking to smear him.

But here are a selection of the many voices who have claimed they were either victims of, or witnesses to, that kind of deeply offensive behaviour.

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