Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’

Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour with intent' at school, but says he can't remember everything from 49 years ago

Nigel Farage has broken his silence nearly a week after he was accused by about 20 people of racism and antisemitism as a teenager, by saying he never directly, really tried to go and hurt anybody".

His remarks came after the publication of a detailed investigation by the Guardian in which many of his school contemporaries claimed to be victims of, or witnesses to, repeated incidents of deeply offensive behaviour.