NIGEL FARAGE is facing a fresh probe into claims that he massively overspent during his successful election campaign in Clacton last year.

The Reform boss was also told by former schoolmates today that it was time he apologised for his racism and anti-semitism when a pupil at Dulwich College in south London.

The Electoral Commission has said it is looking at “any potential failures to comply” with electoral law in the Clacton contest. 

Mr Farage has already been reported to the police over the alleged overspend of around £9,000, charges Reform has denied.  The complaint was first submitted by a campaign whistleblower, Richard Everett.

Labour chairwoman Anna Turley said: “Nigel Farage is treating the British people with contempt by staying silent — he needs to urgently come out of hiding on this.

“His constituents and the wider public deserve to be reassured that neither he nor his party have broken the law,” Ms Turley added.

Twenty-five former pupils and one ex-teacher at Dulwich College have sent an open letter to Mr Farage, calling on him to make it clear that he has renounced the “racist, anti-semitic and fascist views” they allege he expressed when at school.

Mr Farage has insisted he never made racist remarks in a “malicious or nasty way.”

His deputy leader Richard Tice has, however, denounced the claims as “made-up twaddle.”

The party continues to suggest that the stories are politically motivated, something the signatories to the letter explicitly deny.

The letter tells Mr Farage: “We have neither plotted nor conspired. All we have in common is that we either directly experienced or witnessed your racist and anti-semitic behaviour.”

They highlight his alleged remarks to Jewish pupils about gas chambers and his telling “a black child of nine to 10 years of age to go back to Africa, as you did.”

Their letter concluded: “While we agree that no-one should be judged in later life on the basis of what they have said or done in their youth, those seeking high office need to own their past and demonstrate honesty.”

A Reform spokesman said: “Instead of debating Reform on the substance of our ideas and policies, the left-wing media and deeply unpopular Labour Party are now using 50-year-old smears in a last act of desperation.”

And Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer got in a seasonal jab at Mr Farage in Commons questioning, telling Reform MPs, in a reference to the conviction of their leader in Wales for acting as a Russian agent: “If mysterious men from the East appear bearing gifts, this time, report it to the police.”