NIGEL Farage has claimed he did not make comments in a “hurtful or insulting way”, after 20 people he went to school with accused him of racism and antisemitism as a teenager.

The Reform UK leader has broken his silence nearly a week after a Guardian investigation spoke with his school contemporaries at Dulwich College who alleged Farage made racist and antisemitic remarks to them .

Twenty of Farage’s former Dulwich College peers claimed to be victims of, or witnesses to, repeated incidents of deeply offensive behaviour by the Clacton MP.

In a broadcast interview on Monday, Farage was asked if he had racially abused fellow pupils at school, which he denied.

He said: “No, this is 49 years ago, by the way, 49 years ago. Have I ever tried to take it out on any individual on the basis of

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