Former pupils at Dulwich College have made shocking claims about the Reform leader’s behaviour at school – which he denies. Daniel Boffey reports
Peter Ettedgui is a well-known film-maker. But 40 years ago he was a nervous boy starting out at Dulwich College in South London. “I was 13. I’d come from a fairly small school into this slightly intimidating, kind of gothic structure. That was huge.”
He loved performing and soon found his niche in drama, he told Annie Kelly. But one boy shocked him: Nigel Farage. “Once he found out I was Jewish, you know, that was it,” Peter says. “I have this incredibly clear memory of him persistently heckling and hectoring me as a Jew.
“He’d kind of come up to me wherever we were. Might be in the classroom. It might be in the school grounds. And he’d say things like, “Hitler was right” and “Gas ’em” and “ssssss”, the sound of gas escaping basically.”
It has made him watch with growing anxiety the rise of Farage. And he is not alone in his claims that Farage made antisemitic statements and used racist language at school, says the Guardian’s chief reporter Daniel Boffey.
