Ukip leader Nigel Farage was a "fascist" and "racist" during his school days, according to his former teachers.
A recently unearthed letter from the rabid rightwingers's time at posh public school Dulwich College alleges that he "marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs."
Written by Mr Farage's former English teacher Chloe Deakin, the letter was sent to the school's headmaster in response to Mr Farage being made a prefect.
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT



