Nazi salutes and racism: the allegations about
Nigel Farage’s school days – podcast
Former
pupils at Dulwich College have made shocking claims about the Reform leader’s
behaviour at school – which he denies. Daniel Boffey reports
Peter
Ettedgui is a well-known film-maker. But 40 years ago he was a nervous boy
starting out at Dulwich College in South London. “I was 13. I’d come from a
fairly small school into this slightly intimidating, kind of gothic structure.
That was huge.”
He loved
performing and soon found his niche in drama, he told Annie Kelly. But one boy
shocked him: Nigel Farage. “Once he found out I was Jewish, you know, that was
it,” Peter says. “I have this incredibly clear memory of him persistently
heckling and hectoring me as a Jew.
“He’d
kind of come up to me wherever we were. Might be in the classroom. It might be
in the school grounds. And he’d say things like, “Hitler was right” and “Gas
’em” and “ssssss”, the sound of gas escaping basically.”
It has
made him watch with growing anxiety the rise of Farage. And he is not alone in
his claims that Farage made antisemitic statements and used racist language at
school, says the Guardian’s chief reporter Daniel Boffey.
Over the
years, Farage has denied that he was racist and antisemitic at school. And,
says Daniel: “There’s absolutely no suggestion that Farage still holds the
views that people have recounted.”
But, he
tells Annie: “Being prime minister is not any job. You can change a country,
you can change a culture. The people deserve to know absolutely as much as
possible about you, about your character, and that’s what we set out to look
at.”
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