'No, I'm done with you!' Nigel Farage slams BBC as he REFUSES to take question from reporter

Mr Farage was taking questions from Westminster's top reporters after delivering a speech about the delay of four mayoral elections.

However, the Brexit supremo had appeared to have enough of entertaining the BBC reporter's question on allegations of racism made against Mr Farage, which he has already categorically denied.

The reporter asked Mr Farage if he was in agreement with his deputy Richard Tice that those who were laying the claims of racism against the leader were lying, Mr Farage said the framing was "despicable".

The question then prompted the leader to launch into a vicious tirade against the corporation which is burdened with a multitude of bias claims, claiming it holds "double standards".

He further accused the national broadcaster of "double standards and hypocrisy" because of the television shows it aired 50 years ago, including Are You Being Served? and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.

Mr Farage said: "I cannot put up with the double standards of the BBC about what I’m alleged to have said 49 years ago and what you were putting out on mainstream content.

"So, I want an apology from the BBC for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 80s.

"Until you apologise... I'm not speaking to you."

He accused the BBC of giving a platform to blackface, racism and homophobia, in sitcoms including The Black and White Minstrel Show, which aired from 1958 to 1978.

Mr Farage then used the opportunity to read out a letter he said he had been sent from a former school peer, who wrote that he had never heard the Clacton MP racially abuse anyone.

Mr Farage read: "I was a Jewish pupil at Dulwich College at the same time and I remember him very well.

"While there was plenty of macho tongue-in-cheek schoolboy banter, it was humour, and yes, sometimes it was offensive … but never with malice. I never heard him racially abuse anyone.

"If he had, he would have been reported and punished. He wasn’t. The news stories are without evidence, except for belatedly, politically dubious recollections from nearly half a century ago.

"Back in the 1970s the culture was very different … especially at Dulwich.

"Lots of boys said things they’d regret today or just laugh at.

"Whilst Nigel stood out, he was neither aggressive nor a racist.”

He further claimed that he had received "plenty" of such messages since the allegations were first reported in The Guardian.

At the weekend, ZIa Yusuf and Mr Tice appeared on GB News to present a report compiled by Reform staffers, claiming that their data, sourced from publicly accessible outlets, proved Reform's negative coverage was covered more often than that of Labour and the Tories.

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