Attorney general urges Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged racism and antisemitism

Exclusive: Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, says Reform leader clearly deeply hurt' many people with his alleged behaviour

The UK's top law officer, one of the most senior Jewish government ministers, has urged Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who claim the Reform UK leader racially abused them while at school.

The attorney general, Richard Hermer, said Farage had clearly deeply hurt" many people with their descriptions of his behaviour, and that his constantly changing" denials had been unconvincing.