Nigel Farage denies being racist at top private school ‘That was 49 years ago’

Nigel Farage has hit back at claims from his former schoolmates that he engaged in racist bullying while at private school.

The Reform UK leader, looking to become the next prime minister, directly responded to reports about his behaviour while at Dulwich College, south London, as a teenager.

Schoolmates accused Farage, 61, of targeting minority ethnic pupils, singing a ‘Gas ’em all’ song referring to killing non-white people, and burning a school roll in a year group when there were said to be more Patels than Smiths.

Emmy-winning director Peter Ettedgui, now 61, told the Guardian, Farage, when 13 and 14 years old, would sidle up to him and growl ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘Gas them’.

He is also alleged to have told non-white pupils to ‘go back’ to wherever they came from. Asked about the