David Lammy was forced to make a grovelling apology to Nigel Farage today after bizarrely accusing him of having once 'flirted with the Hitler Youth'.
Amid a deepening racism row between Labour and Reform, the Deputy Prime Minister went on live television to lash out at Mr Farage.
After PM Keir Starmer used his main conference speech to hammer the opposition party, Mr Lammy, who only became Sir Keir's number two earlier this month, was asked if he believed Mr Farage was a racist.
He piously insisted he was 'not going to play the man' - before doing just that.
'I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger,' he told the BBC.
