Comrade Starmer! Sir Keir Starmer was quick to jump on claims Nigel Farage used anti-Semitic and racist language when he was at school.

Visa picture of the Commie, Keir Starmer, then 23, before he joined a youth work camp in Czechoslovakia

Daily Mail : After the Guardian reported a dossier of lurid complaints from more than 40 years ago, the Prime Minister insisted the Reform leader needed to urgently ‘explain the comments, or alleged comments’.

The claims made by more than a dozen former classmates of Mr Farage at Dulwich College in South London – which he strongly denies – are deeply unpleasant. One Jewish contemporary described how the 13-year-old Farage ‘would sidle up to me and growl: “Hitler was right” or “gas them”, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers’.

Another ethnic-minority pupil claimed that when he was about nine and Farage 17, the future politician would ask ‘where I was from’, before pointing away and saying: ‘That’s the way back.’ As more pupils have come forward with similar stories and the furore has grown, other senior Labour figures have followed Sir Keir’s lead. Attorney General Richard Hermer, a senior Jewish minister, said last week that Mr Farage ‘clearly deeply hurt’ many people with his alleged behaviour.

While the concerns about Mr Farage’s suspected teenage comments are clearly understandable, the Prime Minister’s decision to get involved in a row about what a rival politician allegedly did at school in the late Seventies and early Eighties inevitably invites scrutiny of his own youth. And, as a Mail on Sunday investigation reveals, Sir Keir faces a few uncomfortable questions.

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