Hard-right British lawmaker Nigel Farage faced growing scrutiny Thursday over allegations he made racist and antisemitic comments while a youngster at an elite English school.

The leader of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, currently tipped by polls to become Britain's next prime minister, has offered different defences to the claims since they resurfaced last week.

He noted Wednesday that a former pupil who said Farage had verbally abused him had "different political views to me", but added that he was "genuinely sorry" if the man felt "hurt".

Film director Peter Ettedgui, who is Jewish, told The Guardian newspaper that Farage engaged in offensive behaviour while a pupil at Dulwich College, a private school in south London, in the 1970s.

He said the future politician would "sidle up

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