Farage says he thought Enoch Powell was right to raise scale of community change

The Reform UK leader also suggested people complaining about his behaviour at school had ‘different political views to me’.

Nigel Farage said he had thought Enoch Powell was “right to talk about not having vast community change” as he defended himself amid allegations of racism in his youth.

The Reform UK leader suggested former pupils complaining about his behaviour while attending a top public school had “different political views to me” but that he was “sorry” if someone had been “hurt”.

He insisted he “never, ever, ever would have said or done anything like that directly to a human being” as he faced questions about the accusations relating to his time at Dulwich College.

In a report published last week by The Guardian, more than a dozen school contemporaries of Mr Farage, 61, reco