Nigel Farage raised his voice at a BBC journalist for questioning him over school day racism allegations when the broadcaster had screened blackface in the 1970s.

The Reform UK leader blasted the Beeb’s ‘double standards’ and demanded an apology for the Black and White Minstrels show, comedian Bernard Manning, Alf Garnett, and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.

‘I cannot put up with the double standards at the BBC about what I’m alleged to have said 49 years ago, and what you were putting out on mainstream content,’ Farage said, growing visibly infuriated.

‘At the time I was alleged to have made these remarks, one of your most popular weekly shows was the Black and White Minstrel Show.

‘The BBC was very happy to use blackface – not just in the Black and White Minstrels, they did it in It Ain’t H

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