‘Farage has for decades made overtly racist and xenophobic remarks. Even as a young student at Dulwich College, an expensive south London private school, numerous teachers reportedly raised concerns about his extreme views, with one alleging that Farage “marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs”. Farage is a well-known admirer of Enoch Powell, who gave the infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech. Farage asked Powell for his support in a by- election in 1994, and drove Powell to a UKIP rally in 1993, writing: “That meeting, with a man who had achieved so much and sacrificed so much for his principles, awoke all sorts of aspirations in me which I had not even acknowledged before. It inspired me.” Farage has reiterated his support for Powell over the years. “While his language may seem out of date now,” Farage has said, “his principles remain good and true.” He has also claimed: “I would never say that Powell was racist in any way at all. Had we listened to him, we would have much better race relations now than we have got.” Farage has elsewhere agreed with a section of the Rivers of Blood speech, claiming that the “basic principle” was correct and has even recited sections of the speech from memory. Throughout his long political career, Farage has regularly made racist statements directed at a range of minority groups. The founder of UKIP, Alan Sked, claimed that when he objected to Farage’s decision to drop the ban on former National Front members, he responded by saying, they shouldn’t “worry about the n***r vote. They will never vote for us.” In 2014 on LBC Radio, Farage famously said: “I was asked if a group of Romanian men moved in next to you, would you be concerned? And if you lived in London, I think you would be.” Upon being asked whether he would object to living next door to German children, he replied: “You know what the difference is.” That same year, Farage claimed that parts of Britain were “unrecognisable” and “like a foreign land”. He had also said he felt “awkward” when he heard people speaking other languages on the train. When asked in another 2014 interview with Newsweek Europe who he thought should be allowed to come to the UK, he said: “People who do not have HIV, to be frank. That is a good start. And people with a skill.” During the 2015 general election campaign, he deployed misleading statistics about foreigners with HIV in a TV debate. During the EU referendum, Farage produced the infamous “Breaking Point” poster, which was widely compared to Nazi propaganda. Despite this, Farage refused to apologise for it. In this period, he also collaborated with Leave. EU, the unofficial Brexit campaign run by Farage’s longtime ally Arron Banks and co- founded by Reform’s chairman Richard Tice, which relentlessly sought to link immigrants and Muslims to violence and societal decline. Both Farage and Tice have distanced themselves from Leave.EU since the referendum, as multiple scandals have struck the outfit. While leader of UKIP, Farage defended a candidate’s use of the racist slur “chnky”, stating: “If you and your mates were going out for a Chinese, what do you say you’re going for?” Farage has also propagated antisemitic conspiracy theories. For example, in 2017, on LBC, he named the so-called US “Jewish lobby” as one of his concerns. He also used well known coded language including discussing the “new world order” and the threat of “globalist” government, describing the Jewish philanthropist George Soros, who is a regular target of conspiratorial antisemitism, as “the biggest danger to the entire western world”. When Jewish groups condemned his comments, he dismissed them as “pathetic”. Farage has increasingly targeted Muslims and migrants. Following the Westminster terrorist attack, Farage spoke of a “fifth column living inside these European countries” on Fox News. “If you open your door to uncontrolled immigration from Middle Eastern countries, you are inviting in terrorism,” he said. Farage also made “fifth column” comments in the wake of the 2015 Paris attack. During the recent general election campaign, Farage argued that it “should be the immigration election” and called for a “freeze” on non-essential immigration and declared that “net migration should be zero”. Speaking on Sky News during the campaign he said, “We have a growing number of young people in this country who do not subscribe to British values, [who] in fact loathe much of what we stand for.” When asked if he was talking about Muslims he responded, “We are.”’