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Starmer labels Farage 'spineless' over handling of racism claims
Starmer demands Farage clarify racist allegations from Reform MP's recent remarks and his own schoolboy comments, accusing him of lacking leadership on racism.
- While travelling to the G20 summit in South Africa, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called Nigel Farage `spineless` and demanded he explain alleged racist comments as soon as possible.
- The Guardian published accounts this week from former Dulwich College contemporaries alleging Farage joked about gas chambers and made racist jibes, and put a pupil in detention due to their skin colour.
- Sarah Pochin, a Reform UK MP for Runcorn & Helsby, said last month adverts overrepresented Black and Asian people and later apologised; Farage called the schoolboy allegations ugly but not racist.
- In defence, Reform UK described the reports as a smear campaign, saying the allegations are entirely without foundation and a Reform source accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of lashing out amid poor poll ratings.
- The Guardian has produced no contemporaneous record to corroborate recollections from nearly 50 years ago, and Sir Keir Starmer previously used the same 'spineless' label at Prime Minister's Questions last week.
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Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to address allegations of racism in Reform UK, and antisemitic and xenophobic comments and bullying allegedly made by Farage while he was at school. Farage has denied the accusations. A few weeks before the allegations about Farage emerged, Reform MP Sarah Pochin was accused of racism after saying that it “drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. Farage said that while …
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Keir Starmer blasts 'spineless' Nigel Farage after school claims emerge
The Reform UK leader hit back at the PM calling him 'the weakest Prime Minister in living memory'
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- 39% of the sources are Center, 38% of the sources lean Right
39% Center
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C 39%
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