Jan Chamier (@janmicham.bsky.social)

Reform UK’s deputy leader says racism claims about Nigel Farage from fellow pupils are ‘made-up twaddle’ – UK politics live Richard Tice claims that allegations against Farage are ‘nonsense’ from people with ‘a political axe to grind’ Good morning. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has given different responses, at different times, to the accounts of him being racist and antisemitic when he was a teenager given by some of his contempories at Dulwich College in south London. They have ranged from saying he may have engaged in “banter” using language that, 50 years later, may be regarded as offensive, to saying the claims were entirely without foundation. There is a good summary here. But today Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, has gone much further, accusing at least one of Farage’s critics of lying and describing the recollections as “made-up twaddle” motivated by political bias. I can’t believe anybody would have said that. Yes. This is all made-up twaddle by people who don’t want Nigel to be prime minister of the country. It’s funny how they didn’t remember this three years ago, six years ago, 10 years ago. This is this is this is made-up nonsense by someone who’s got a politically biased motive. And let me tell you; no one has stood up against antisemitism more than Nigel and I. We were the ones who, immediately after October 7, said we were very worried about the protests, the pro-Palestine protest, that were inciting hatred, antsemitism and violence. I think this is made-up twaddle by a whole bunch of people with … a political axe to grind. And every week the voters are going out in byelections and they are voting for Reform because they are not buying into this leftwing, anti-Nigel narrative. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/04/reform-uk-nigel-farage-richard-tice-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news-updates?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu