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Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy ignited a political firestorm by making the astonishing allegation that Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, had ‘flirted with the Hitler Youth when he was younger.’ Lammy made the claim while being questioned on Politics Live regarding whether he thought Farage was a racist, a question he avoided answering with a simple yes or no.
Instead, Lammy reasserted Labour’s stance that Reform’s policy to deport people in the UK without citizenship is discriminatory and racist.
The Deputy PM said, “I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgements about someone who once flirted with the Hitler Youth when he was younger.” He insisted that his focus was on policy, but added, “That is for the public.” This allegation is not entirely new, with Channel 4 having previously reported on a 1981 letter written by an English teacher at Dulwich College, Chloe Deakin, who urged the college master, David Emms, to reconsider appointing a young Farage as a prefect due to his behaviour.
The teacher stated that the master believed the behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect, while a colleague claimed that Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village late at night ‘shouting Hitler-youth songs’ during a Combined Cadet Force camp.
Farage had previously dismissed the allegations at the time as 'complete baloney.' The Prime Minister also waded into the debate, stating that while controlling migration is a reasonable goal, his party is clear that anyone who argues people who have lived in the UK for generations should be deported is an ‘enemy of national renewal.’