"if they genuinely were then that's a pity and I'm sorry, but never, ever did I intend to hurt anybody"
"I tell you what, if teenage boys together in an all-boys school haven't said things to each other, haven't been brutal in some ways in the late 1970s, I'd be very, very surprised."
"Farage's 'nonpology' today at least differs from previous lamentable attempts to excuse his racist insults as 'banter', or to smear those of us who have spoken up as liars or fantasists."
"But he said urgent questions remained for the politician, including why he had "continually denied the repugnant behaviour so many of his schoolmates recall" rather than acknowledging it and "apologising sincerely"."
Nigel Farage said he had not once wondered if he had upset anyone and added "if they genuinely were then that's a pity and I'm sorry, but never, ever did I intend to hurt anybody". A former Dulwich College contemporary, Peter Ettedgui, described that response as a "nonpology" and said urgent questions remain. More than a dozen former pupils from the late 1970s and early 1980s say they witnessed racist behaviour by Farage as a teenager, and the BBC has spoken to others who corroborate those accounts. Ettedgui asked why Farage continually denied such behaviour instead of acknowledging it and apologising sincerely, and whether those views shaped his political agenda.
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