It has taken David Lammy only 3 hours to retract his claim that Farage “flirted with the Hitler youth” while at school. The Deputy PM there…
Lammy made the claims on Politics Live at around 2:15 p.m. and recanted them at 5:17 today. Lammy said he “accepts” that Farage denied the claims, which first appeared in a Channel 4 news article in 2013. Channel 4 said that one of Farage’s young teachers complained about his upcoming prefectship at Dulwich College because he was a “fascist” and sang suspect songs back in the day. Farage has denied the claims…
Lammy, who is supposedly trained as a lawyer, did however refuse to apologise after Reform said his claim was libellous. Ever the statesman…