Key Highlights
- The politician gave an "angry performance" at a press conference, vowing to boycott ITV and the BBC - and also pointing out the networks had shown homophobic and racist content themselves in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Farage has denied the claims against him and the Guardian says Reform's deputy leader Richard Tice called the former classmates liars. For the Daily Mail, "Farage's 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' attack on BBC double standards" is in the lead.
- The Reform UK leader said the corporation should issue an apology for broadcasting the programme - as well as The Black and White Minstrel Show - if it wanted to apply the standards of today to the 1970s.
- Reform UK have been thrust into the "fundraising lead" reports the Financial Times after an expat entrepreneur's record £9m gift.
- The paper also snaps Russian President Vladimir Putin in a car with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the pair met in New Delhi at the start of a two-day summit. Ex-Masterchef host John Torode is "in therapy over TV axe" reads the headline of the Sun.
