Richard Hermer, the Attorney General, who is Jewish, said Nigel Farage's alleged comments had 'clearly deeply hurt' people and called for him to apologise

Nigel Farage has been urged to apologise for alleged racist comments he made as a schoolboy by the UK's top lawyer.

Richard Hermer, the Attorney General, who is Jewish, said Mr Farage's alleged comments had "clearly deeply hurt" people. It comes after around 20 people claimed they were either victims of or witnessed the Reform UK leader's offensive behaviour when he was aged 13 to 18.

Speaking about Mr Farage's response to the claims, Lord Hermer told the Guardian: “Arguing that 20 people have somehow all misremembered the same things about his nasty behaviour simply isn’t credible. Throughout his defensive responses to legitimate que

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