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passioned plea, and I think that's fantastic
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But at the beginning of the press conference that we saw a clip of earlier, Nigel Farage
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was asked consistently to take responsibility for what he said as a teenager
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And he hasn't. He's obfuscated. That's because he didn't say it. He's obfuscated
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When he was asked if Richard Tice had lied, sorry, if Richard Tice was right
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that the journalist had lied, that those people that complained at Dulwich College about him had lied
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while Nigel has said, Like, no, I might have said some things that were taken out of context
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or I didn't mean them or, you know what, it's no worse than what was going on on BBC TV or ITV
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Bernard Manning. That doesn't sound like taking responsibility. That sounds like whataboutery
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You know what, that's a credit to Nigel. He cannot remember what was said
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And who... Hang on, you accused him of something quite bad, so let me ask you that
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I didn't accuse him of anything. OK, no, you said... It's his classmates who have accused him of things
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But you've said he should apologise. Twenty of them. There is absolutely no proof that he said that
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He denies he said anything with malice or anything to hurt someone. The reason why..
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Why the with malice? Why not just say I didn't say them, but he said with malice? Because that's a credit to Nigel
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No, it's not. It's obfuscating. It 45 years ago and he cannot remember his exact words That a credit to him He could have categorized Having no memory is not a credit to anyone I sorry Do you remember 45 years ago Of course I do I remember my school days very well and I was on the receiving end of some of that racist abuse
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that had been accused of not. I was called a sand N-word all the time
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Great, and how did it make you feel? I just told them to go away. What would you say to the people
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It didn't make me feel anything. Layla, do you think that this is an issue which is just going to go away for Nigel Farage over the next week or so
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if he continues to claim whether or not it's true that he doesn't remember what was said
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and I accept your argument that it might be difficult to remember exactly what was said 45 years ago
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do you think this is something that is going to go away? Because I've been speaking to people in Westminster
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people who like Nigel Farage, people who are sympathetic to Nigel Farage, who worry that this is a really serious problem
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for his future as the Prime Minister. So you look sceptical. Tell me what. Come on. A serious problem for something he said 45 years ago
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Is that a joke? Just say sorry. Just say sorry. He didn't say it
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He's being accused of saying... No, but he keeps adding things like, if I said anything, it wasn't with Alice
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Yes, because he's trying to remember what he said. So when his classmates tell him
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why doesn't he just say sorry? It's fascinating. No, no, hang on. It's fascinating that the opposition
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cannot find anything to attack us on policy. So they're trying to find something from 45 years ago
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and milking it. Leila, we're going to have to talk it there. I'm sure we will get back to this issue, it feels like
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We're going round in circles on Nigel Farage's guilt
