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The United Kingdom's attorney general, Richard Hermer, has demanded Nigel Farage to apologise to school contemporaries who allege he targeted with racist abuse them during their school days.

Hermer remarked that Farage had "undoubtedly deeply hurt" many people, according to their accounts of his actions as a youth. He commented that the politician's "evolving" explanations had been difficult to believe.

“During his replies to legitimate questions, not once has Farage genuinely condemned antisemitism,” Hermer informed a publication.

Fresh Claims Surface

A published report last month detailed the accounts of over a dozen former classmates of Farage from a south London school.

One, a former pupil, said that a teenage Farage "would sidle up to me and utter: ‘The Nazi leader was correct’ or ‘send them to the gas chambers’, at times making a long hiss to mimic the sound of the gas showers”.

Another pupil from an ethnic minority alleged that when he was about nine, he was similarly targeted by a older Farage.

“He walked up to a pupil with two tall mates and spoke to anyone looking ‘unusual’,” the former student said. “That happened to me on three separate times; inquiring where I was from, and gesturing, saying: ‘That's how you get back,’ to wherever you replied you were from.”

After the story broke, more people have emerged; around two dozen people have now claimed they were either victims of or witnesses to deeply offensive past behaviour by Farage.

The incidents they recounted relate to the period when Farage was aged a teenager.

Evolving Explanations

The political figure has disputed that anything he did was "blatantly" racist or antisemitic, and has suggested the former classmates were being untruthful.

Critics have noted that Farage has neglected to condemn antisemitism and other forms of racism outright in his statements.

They also point to his reluctance to discipline a party member, a MP, after she complained about the number of black and brown people she saw in adverts. She later apologised for the remarks.

“Nigel Farage’s constantly changing story about his behaviour to his peers [is] unconvincing, to say the least,” Hermer stated.

He went on to say: “Claiming that two dozen individuals have somehow forgotten the same things about his nasty behaviour simply lacks credibility."

Demand for Accountability

“If he wishes to be seen as a serious contender for the top job, he must address the concerns of the Jewish community, and apologise to the numerous individuals he has obviously deeply hurt by his behaviour,” Hermer said.

“Prejudice in all its forms is anathema to the values of this country and we cannot allow it to ever become legitimised in politics.”

In a other comments, the Chancellor said Farage should “say something” if he wanted to look like a true statesman.

“It says a lot how very little he has to say, and the very careful language that both you and I would recognise as being written in a particular way to communicate, but also not to say something,” she remarked.

Formal Denials and Subsequent Comments

In legal letters before the publication of the investigation, Farage’s lawyers claimed that “the allegation that Mr Farage ever took part in, approved of, or led such conduct is strongly rejected”.

Farage later seemingly shifted his position in an interview, stating: “Did I say things decades ago that you could see as being teenage humour, you could interpret in a modern light today in some way? Possibly.”

He added that he had “never directly sought to go and hurt anybody”. Farage subsequently put out a further comment: “I can tell you unequivocally that I did not say the things that have been printed when I was 13, decades in the past.”