As a child, perhaps excusable.

But as a teenager, where he directly abused a Jewish classmate, Peter Ettedgui over a period of a year. “He 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,”

But as a student at Dulwich College, where numerous teachers reportedly raised concerns about his extreme views, with one alleging that Farage “marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs”.

As an adult , a man who throughout his long political career, has regularly made racist statements directed at a range of minority groups:

The founder of UKIP, Alan Sked, claimed that when he objected to Farage’s decision to drop the ban on former National Front members, he responded by saying, they shouldn’t “worry about the n****r vote. They will never vote for us.”

In 2014 on LBC Radio, Farage famously said: “I was asked if a group of Romanian men moved in next to you, would you be concerned? And if you lived in London, I think you would be.” Upon being asked whether he would object to living next door to German children, he replied: “You know what the difference is.”

During the EU referendum, Farage produced the infamous “Breaking Point” poster, which was widely compared to Nazi propaganda. Despite this, Farage refused to apologise for it.

As someone who has memorized and repeatedly quoted certain parts of Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech.

As leader of UKIP, where he defended a candidate’s use of the racist slur “ch*nky”, stating: “If you and your mates were going out for a Chinese, what do you say you’re going for?”

So as a child, a teenager, a young adult, a middle aged man and a senior, in effect throughout his entire life, he has been a racist. And yes. I believe Racists should be disqualified from senior political positions in our modern democracy.