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Ex-equalities watchdog head 'confused' by Farage response to racism claims
The Independent
|December 08, 2025
The former head of the equalities watchdog has questioned Nigel Farage’s response to allegations of racism during his teenage years, asking why he has not offered “an unreserved apology for any distress caused”.
The Reform UK leader has faced allegations that he engaged in racist and antisemitic behaviour while he was a pupil at Dulwich College, a top private school in south London.
Speaking to Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, former Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner said she was "confused and disturbed" by the allegations.
Describing the claims as "ghastly on paper", Baroness Falkner said: "The one thing that slightly confuses me about him, and I hear his contextualisation of it all. Why can't he just offer an unreserved apology for any distress caused? I just don't get it. It seems to me that that would be the most genuine thing to say if he's genuinely not a racist."
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