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…
Speaking on the Labour chaos over the last few weeks, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told The Guardian:
“You call it a sh*tshow, I say it’s unforgivable…It does look to people outside that we’re more interested in ourselves and less interested in preventing chaos. […] We’ve not done enough, and this has got to be the moment of reckoning where we say not just what are we here for, but who are we here for?”