Nick Clegg defends Nigel Farage's right to a private life after 'fascist' claims We go back to who threw sand at who in the sandpit? I don't want to belittle what has been said about Nigel Farage because, of course, Hitler songs is a sort of category on its own. He denies it completely. I just think if we are going to start moving to a time where we start saying you said this when you were 12, therefore you are not fit now to occupy a public office I think that would probably be a pretty unhealthy development. The Prime Minister has faced strong scrutiny over schooling at Eton College and his university days, which he spent in the Bullingdon Club. He has insisted politicians have a right to a private life before they come into politics. According to Channel 4 News, it was alleged while on a cadet force training exercise Mr Farage and his friends had "marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs," according to a letter sent to the Master of the college. In the letter, dated 4 June 1981, Chloe Deakin, a teacher, told her colleagues: "You will recall that at the recent, and lengthy, meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was "a facist, but perhaps that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room." Mr Farage said: "I did say things that would offend deeply.