Was Nigel Farage a racist school boy? As his biographer this is what I discovered

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Biographer and broadcaster Michael Crick first challenged the Reform leader over claims of racist and neo-fascist views as a pupil at Dulwich College over 12 years ago. As more allegations have emerged, he sets out what he thinks they say about the teenage Nigel and the man he is today

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’ve written five political biographies in my time as a journalist and broadcast numerous television profiles. I especially love delving into people’s childhoods and schooldays for early clues of what was to come. And for Nigel Farage, more than anyone else I’ve studied, one can see so many aspects of the Reform leader of today in his teenage self.